Jane Austen's Guide to Dating - Hardcover

Henderson, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075531462X ISBN 13: 9780755314621

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

Jane Austen's witty, perceptive and romantic novels have delighted readers for two hundred years. With clear sight, common sense and good judgment, she observed the hits and near-misses of her heroes and heroines in love. Things certainly haven't got any easier since then and Lauren Henderson believes that we might just have lost touch with the fundamental rules. "Jane Austen's Guide to Dating" rights that wrong and brings Austen's Regency wisdom into the twenty-first century. It's a fun, insightful book, full of concrete advice and wise strategies that illustrate how honesty, self-awareness and forthrightness do win you the right man in the end and weed out the losers, playboys and toxic flirts. Henderson deftly summarizes all the love stories in the books and introduces all the characters, so that newcomers and devotees alike can delight in this fun, fresh and audacious how-to guide.

About this title

About the Author

Lauren Henderson was raised in London and studied English Literature at Cambridge University, where she wrote her dissertation on courtship rituals in Jane Austen. She is the author of numerous novels. She currently lives in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075531462X
• ISBN 13: 9780755314621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320