Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen

FAY WELDON

ISBN 10: 088184599X / ISBN 13: 9780881845990

Published by Carroll & Graf Pub July 1990, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub July 1990
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088184599X
• ISBN 13: 9780881845990
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14 18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon is edited by Jenifer Smith, English Advisor, Suffolk LEA."

Synopsis

When her niece complains that Jane Austen is tedious and has little relevance, the author offers a defence of literature and reading.