Jane Austen: A Life
From her study of the Austen family papers, Claire Tomalin paints a rich, tragi-comic picture of the Austen clan and their neighbours, reaching the conclusion that the facts of Jane Austen's life were even more extravagant and romantic than her fiction.
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Review:
"Brisk and sparkling--a page turner, in fact."- "The New Yorker
""A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight."- "The New York Times
""Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight."- "The Atlantic Monthly "
"Brisk and sparkling a page turner, in fact."- "The New Yorker
""A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight."- "The New York Times
""Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight."- "The Atlantic Monthly ""
"Brisk and sparkling a page turner, in fact."- The New Yorker
"A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight."- The New York Times
"Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight."- The Atlantic Monthly "
"Brisk and sparkling--a page turner, in fact."- The New Yorker
"A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight."- The New York Times
"Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight."- The Atlantic Monthly
-Brisk and sparkling--a page turner, in fact.-- The New Yorker
-A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight.-- The New York Times
-Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight.-- The Atlantic Monthly
Synopsis:
""A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight."- "The New York Times
""Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight."- "The Atlantic Monthly "
"Brisk and sparkling a page turner, in fact."- "The New Yorker
""A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight."- "The New York Times
""Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight."- "The Atlantic Monthly ""
"Brisk and sparkling a page turner, in fact."- The New Yorker
"A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight."- The New York Times
"Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight."- The Atlantic Monthly "
"Brisk and sparkling--a page turner, in fact."- The New Yorker
"A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight."- The New York Times
"Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight."- The Atlantic Monthly
-Brisk and sparkling--a page turner, in fact.-- The New Yorker
-A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight.-- The New York Times
-Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight.-- The Atlantic Monthly
The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours, and of Jane's progress through a difficult childhood, an unhappy love affair, her experiences as a poor relation and her decision to reject a marriage that would solve all her problems - except that of continuing as a writer. Both the woman and the novels are radically reassessed in this biography.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0140866728
- ISBN 13 9780140866728
- BindingAudio Cassette
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