Jane Austen: A Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143035169)

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. She reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. With its fascinating insights into the writing process from an award-winning novelist, Carol Shields's magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.

Author: Carol Shields
ISBN-10: 0143035169
ISBN-13: 9780143035169
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2005
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.18h x 5.12w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 47
New York Times 05/29/2005 pg. 16
Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 34