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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

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

by William Deresiewicz
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Availability:In StockContributor:William DeresiewiczAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2012-04-24Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143121251ISBN-10:143121251UPC:9780143121251Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Memoirs, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary FiguresSize:7.70 x 5.07 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SCGG4FZBXT
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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143121251ISBN-10:143121251UPC:9780143121251Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Memoirs, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary FiguresSize:7.70 x 5.07 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.4608Product ID:SCGG4FZBXT
WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ is a widely published book critic and the author of Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets. He was nominated for National Magazine Awards in 2008, 2009, and 2011 and the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010 and 2011.

www.billderesiewicz.com
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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