A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter - Hardcover

Deresiewicz, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594202885 ISBN 13: 9781594202889

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2011

Synopsis

The author of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets explains how six of Austen's novels taught him life-changing lessons.

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Review:

Sharp, endearingly self-effacing . . . a profound truth lies embedded in Deresiewicz s witty account. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Like Austen, Deresiewicz is lucid, principled and knows how to think as well as how to feel, without ever sacrificing one to the other . a delightful and enlightening book. SLATE.COM
An entertaining and original version of literary criticism as autobiography. THE SEATTLE TIMES
With A Jane Austen Education, Deresiewicz writes with discerning wit and quiet perception about the lessons in friendship, empathy, honesty, happiness, and love he learns from each of Austen's immortal novels. CHICAGO TRIBUNE
[Deresiewicz] is charming on the page. He talks about literary characters as if they were real people, and about Austen as if she lived at the end of the block he does so in a style that comes across as fresh and conversational, like a genuinely witty bibliophile you d like to talk with at a party. " LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
[Deresiewicz] writes with wit, charm and candor, and the result is simply delightful." ASSOCIATED PRESS"

"Sharp, endearingly self-effacing . . . a profound truth lies embedded in Deresiewicz's witty account." -- THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"Like Austen, Deresiewicz is lucid, principled and knows how to think as well as how to feel, without ever sacrificing one to the other.... a delightful and enlightening book. -- SLATE.COM

"An entertaining and original version of literary criticism--as autobiography." -- THE SEATTLE TIMES

"With A Jane Austen Education, Deresiewicz writes with discerning wit and quiet perception about the lessons in friendship, empathy, honesty, happiness, and love he learns from each of Austen's immortal novels." -- CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"[Deresiewicz] is charming on the page. He talks about literary characters as if they were real people, and about Austen as if she lived at the end of the block...he does so in a style that comes across as fresh and conversational, like a genuinely witty bibliophile you'd like to talk with at a party. " -- LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

"[Deresiewicz] writes with wit, charm and candor, and the result is simply delightful." -- ASSOCIATED PRESS

About the Author:

William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008 and is a widely published book critic. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Bookforum, and The American Scholar. He was nominated for National Magazine awards in 2008 and 2009 and the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010. He is the author of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1594202885
• ISBN 13: 9781594202889
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 255