Each volume of this fully annotated scholarly edition of Jane Austen's complete works features an extensive introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, full explanatory notes to the text and an authoritative text. The Cambridge Austen is the definitive edition for the twenty-first century. This introductory set includes the first three out of the nine volumes in the edition and includes Mansfield Park, Emma and a volume of essays on Austen's time and contexts: Jane Austen in Context,