Jane Austen: A Life - Hardcover
The author of Mrs. Jordan's Profession offers an incisive portrait of the acclaimed author and the Georgian society in which she lived, discussing her personal life, her family, her colorful neighbors, and her extraordinary novels. 20,000 first printing. Tour.
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"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
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""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
Claire Tomalin is the author of several prize-winning biographies--of Mary Wollstonecraft; Katherine Mansfield; Dickens's secret mistress, Nelly Ternan; and Dora Jordan, the actress who for twenty years was companion to the future George IV. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and The Sunday Times. Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679446281
- ISBN 13 9780679446286
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages341
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