Jane Austen: A Life - Hardcover

Tomalin, Claire

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670865281 ISBN 13: 9780670865284

Publisher: Viking, 1997

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358 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

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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:

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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