| A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter Contributor(s): Deresiewicz, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143121251 ISBN-13: 9780143121251 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.07" W x 7.7" (0.46 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emma--and everything changed. In this unique and lyrical book, Deresiewicz weaves the misadventures of Austen's characters with his own youthful follies, demonstrating the power of the great novelist's teachings--and how, for Austen, growing up and making mistakes are one and the same. Honest, erudite, and deeply moving, A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man's discovery of the world outside himself.
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