Book Description
Published to coincide with the BBC TV four-part serialisation of EMMA in autumn 2009.
Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781905716753
Published to coincide with the BBC TV four-part serialisation of EMMA in autumn 2009.
Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421422832
Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.
Author : Sheila Hocken
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1448117259
As a girl, Sheila never let her gradual descent into blindness prevent her from trying to do everything a sighted person could do. Then at 17, unable to see to find her way around the house she grew up in, she found herself dreading her future in an 'ever darkening vacuum'. But then the remarkable Emma enters her life, and Sheila begins a journey that brings her the independence, love and happiness she never dreamed possible. Emma and I is the moving and inspirational story of the unique bond between Sheila and her dog, and shows that, sometimes, miracles do happen.
Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 1864
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Mullan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1620400448
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness.? ?In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austens novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction. Readers will discover when Austen's characters had their meals and what shops they went to; how vicars got good livings; and how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen? illuminates the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and daring as a novelist. It uses telling passages from Austen's letters and details from her own life to explain episodes in her novels: readers will find out, for example, what novels she read, how much money she had to live on, and what she saw at the theater.? ? Written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Jane Austen? will allow readers to appreciate Jane Austen's work in greater depth than ever before.
Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 1861
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Author : Emma Tennant
Publisher : Sceptre
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Families
ISBN : 9780340628065
This is Emma Tennant's inventive continuation of Pride and Prejudice. As in her earlier novel Pemberley, Emma has written an original work of stylish irony, wit and insight into early 19th century life and manners.
Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 1923
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Paula Byrne
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062199064
“A vivacious portrait. . . . Byrne’s Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she’s often acknowledged to occupy. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility—and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers.” — Publishers Weekly In The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist. Just as letters and tokens in Jane Austen’s novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things – a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature – that held significance in Austen’s personal and creative life. Byrne transports us to different worlds, from the East Indies to revolutionary Paris, and to different events, from a high society scandal to a case of petty shoplifting. In this ground-breaking biography, Austen is set on a wider stage than ever before, revealing a well-traveled and politically aware writer – important aspects of her artistic development that have long been overlooked. The Real Jane Austen is a fresh, compelling, and surprising biography of the author of some of our most enduring classic books – from Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility, Emma to Persuasion – and a vivid evocation of the world that shaped her.
Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804172412
The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series deftly escorts Jane Austen’s beloved, meddlesome heroine into the twenty-first century in this delightfully inventive retelling. The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to live with her widowed father and launch her interior design business. Apart from cultivating grand career plans and managing her father’s hypochondria, Emma busies herself with the two things she does best: matchmaking and offering advice on everything from texting etiquette to first date destinations. Happily, this summer presents abundant opportunities for both, as old and new friends are drawn into the sphere of Emma’s counsel: George Knightley, her principled brother-in-law; Frank Churchill, the attractive stepson of her former governess; Harriet Smith, a naïve but enchanting young teacher’s assistant at the local language school; and the perfect (and perfectly vexing) Jane Fairfax. Carriages have been replaced by Mini Coopers and cups of tea by cappuccinos, but Alexander McCall Smith’s sparkling satire and cozy sensibility are the perfect match for Jane Austen’s beloved tale.