Jane Austen: Collected Works

This repository contains the source texts to Jane Austen’s (1775–1817) Collected Works.

Textus Classics Bicentenary Edition

The text files to the books offered in this repository have been prepared at the occasion of Jane Austen’s bicentenary (July 18, 1817–2017), and are the source to the Textus Classics edition online available for free at JaneAusten2017.com.

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Technical details and contents

The main source file to each book is stored in a single markdown file (the .md extension denotes that the text has been formatted using a markdown compliant markup syntax), each stored in a separate folder, along with any assets (like image and metadata files).

• 1787–93 | Juvenilia (PG 1211)
• 1790 | Love and Freindship (PG 1211)
• 1791 | The history of England (PG 1211)
• 1792 | Lesley Castle (PG 1211)
• 1811 | Sense and Sensibility (PG 21839)
• 1813 | Pride and Prejudice (PG 1342)
• 1814 | Mansfield Park (PG 141)
• 1815 | Emma (PG 158)
• 1818 | Northanger Abbey (PG 121)
• 1818 | Persuasion (PG 105)
• 1871 | Lady Susan (PG 946)

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TODO

All of Jane Austen’s major novels are present in this repository. They were grabbed from the Complete Collected Works as published by Project Gutenberg, #31100, after which they have been converted (from html to markdown) and reformatted. For more info, please consult the commit history.

• A carefully crafted digital edition of Pride and Prejudice is available from Standard Ebooks; Textus Classics has a deprecated repository to an earlier release (February 2017) containing the same work. Both should be collated and merged with the text contained in this repository.

• Besides the main novels and minor posthumously published writings present in the PG Collected Works, Project Gutenberg also has the Letters of Jane Austen (PG 42078), which is lacking from this repository.

• In addition, Wikipedia lists quite a few other works: some unfinished fiction and other works, and three volumes of ‘Juvenilia’. Most of these minor writings are lacking from this repository.

• On Pemberley.com there’s what seems an exhaustive overview, listing all Jane Austen’s writings, with many links to different (and annotated) digital online editions. It might be useful to merge and add these as well.

Out of Copyright

The Works contained in this online electronic repository have been first published long before 1923; the author of the Works deceased more than 70 years ago. It follows, world-wide, that these Works have entered the Public Domain and are free of copyrights. The texts and files contained inhere are offered for free for all to enjoy and to do with as one pleases.