Jane Austen

Author : Natalie Jenner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250248728
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jane Austen Society written by Natalie Jenner and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.

Author : Nora Bartlett
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783749784
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen written by Nora Bartlett and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhilarating collection of essays is the product of a lifetime's engagement with Jane Austen's writing. They are modest, searching, wonderfully perceptive essays from which all lovers of Jane Austen, the most knowledgeable as well as those who have just discovered her, will have much to learn. They are essays that send us back to the novels with a renewed understanding of Jane Austen's extraordinary achievement. Prof. Richard Cronin, University of Glasgow This volume presents an exhilarating and insightful collection of essays on Jane Austen – distilling the author’s deep understanding and appreciation of Austen’s works across a lifetime. The volume is both intra- and inter-textual in focus, ranging from perceptive analysis of individual scenes to the exploration of motifs across Austen’s fiction. Full of astute connections, these lively discussions hinge on the study of human behaviour – from family relationships to sickness and hypochondria – highlighting Austen’s artful literary techniques and her powers of human observation. Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader by (the late) Nora Bartlett is a brilliant contribution to the field of Jane Austen studies, both in its accessible style (which preserves the oral register of the original lectures), and in its foregrounding of the reader in a warm, compelling and incisive conversation about Austen’s works. As such, it will appeal widely to all lovers of Jane Austen, whether first-time readers, students or scholars.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532893346
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen Novels written by Jane Austen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen was an English Regency novelist known for her major literature & fiction novels. Jane Austen's most highly praised genre fiction novel is her second published book, Pride and Prejudice, which was originally published in 1813 and remains a best selling book in the present day. Jane Austen's Regency genre fiction novels have inspired a large number of critical essays and literary anthologies. Her success as a published writer quickly surpassed the borders of Britain and allowed Jane Austen to garner international fame. Her major works include, literature & fiction classics Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Jane Austen also wrote two additional Regency genre fiction novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, two books which were published posthumously in 1818. This literature & fiction anthology edition includes Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion considered by many to be Jane Austen's three best classics. Jane Austen's work is often categorized in the Romance genre, however the title of her books Sense and Sensibility as well as Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion all may be suggestive of political conflicts of the late 1700's and early 1800's. This literature & fiction anthology edition includes the three classic Jane Austen novels Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion which all are often required textbook reading for many literature and humanities courses.

Author : John Mullan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620400448
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Matters in Jane Austen? written by John Mullan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness.? ?In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austens novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction. Readers will discover when Austen's characters had their meals and what shops they went to; how vicars got good livings; and how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen? illuminates the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and daring as a novelist. It uses telling passages from Austen's letters and details from her own life to explain episodes in her novels: readers will find out, for example, what novels she read, how much money she had to live on, and what she saw at the theater.? ? Written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Jane Austen? will allow readers to appreciate Jane Austen's work in greater depth than ever before.

Author : Janine Barchas
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421431599
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Books of Jane Austen written by Janine Barchas and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly innovative and occasionally irreverent, this book will appeal in equal measure to book historians, Austen fans, and scholars of literary celebrity.

Author : Jon Spence
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144115342X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Jane Austen written by Jon Spence and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever written. Becoming Jane Austen gives the fullest account we have of the romance, which was more serious and more enduring than previously believed. Seeing this love story in the context of Jane Austen's whole life enables us to appreciate the profound effect the relationship had on her art and on subsequent choices that she made in her life. Full of insight and with an attentive eye for detail, Spence explores Jane Austen's emotional attachments and the personal influences that shaped her as a novelist. His elegant narrative provides a point of entry into Jane Austen's world as she herself perceived and experienced it. It is a world familiar to us from her novels, but in Becoming Jane Austen, Austen herself is the heroine.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.VR/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion written by Jane Austen and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Nokes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520216068
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen written by David Nokes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author sifts through evidence that depicts Austen not as a modest, retiring daughter, but rather as a rebellious, satirical, and wild woman. -- Back cover.

Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125013160X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen at Home written by Lucy Worsley and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip back to the world of Jane Austen and the homes she lived in with noted historian Lucy Worsley.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781979577038
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma written by Jane Austen and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."