A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143121251)

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.

Author: William Deresiewicz
ISBN-10: 0143121251
ISBN-13: 9780143121251
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.07w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/10/2012 pg. 32