Jane Austen: A Brief Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300232219)

An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists

"I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . . It tells one all one needs to know about Jane Austen, and, best of all, leaves one wanting to read the novels once more, and better."--Jane Aiken Hodge

Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz?

In this graceful introduction to the author's life and works, Fiona Stafford offers a fresh and accessible perspective, discussing Austen's six astonishing novels in the context of their time. Newly updated, Jane Austen: A Brief Life offers a rich and sympathetic insight into a writer who was just as much the Romantic genius as Keats, Shelley or Byron--full of youthful exuberance, intensely creative once she had found her individual voice, and dead before she reached middle age.

Author: Fiona Stafford
ISBN-10: 0300232217
ISBN-13: 9780300232219
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2017
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d