Jane Austen: A Life - Hardcover

Nokes, David

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ISBN 10: 0374113262 ISBN 13: 9780374113261

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997

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Drawing on unpublished sources, the author offers an intimate, psychological portrait of the novelist, revealing the truth behind many disturbing Austen family secrets and tracing the internal conflicts that formed Austen's divided character.

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Review:

Praise for Nokes’s biography of SWIFT:

‘Nokes writes with pith and vigour. This volume will confirm his position as one of the most acute critics of 18th century literature now active.’
Books and Bookmen

‘Exemplary’
TLS

‘Concise, lucid and lively’
Sunday Times

About the Author:

David Nokes was for many years a professor of English Literature at King's College London, where he taught eighteenth-century literature and pioneered the Creative Writing course. His books include Jonathan Swift, A Hypocrite Reversed, which won the James Tait Black Memorial prize in 1985, and biographies of John Gay (1995), Jane Austen (1997) and Samuel Johnson (2009). His adaptation of Clarissa for BBC TV was nominated for a Bafta award in 1991. David Nokes died in 2009.

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