Author: Michael O'Mara Books Publisher: Michael O'Mara ISBN: 9781782434542 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 0
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Be inspired by the witty and insightful quotes by Jane Austen as you pen your thoughts in this beautifully designed notebook. Charming and practical, it includes some of the most thought-provoking quotes from her novels and letters.
Author: Natalie Jenner Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250248728 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 374
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* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.
Author: Pretty Pretty Notes N Journals Publisher: ISBN: 9781794381735 Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
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This blank notebook has a cute Jane Austen Quote on the cover. "Eleanor went to her room where she was free to think and be wretched" from the novel Sense and Sensibility. At 7" x 10" it's the perfect size for journaling or writing notes, lists and plans. With 100 lined sheets inside there's loads of space for you to write. Makes a great gift for the Jane Austen fan! 7" x 10" 100 Lined Pages Wide Ruled White Pages Softcover
Author: Sheila Johnson Kindred Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773552081 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages :
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In 1807, genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between and lived in Bermuda, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and England. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel, and developed a supportive friendship with his sister, Jane. In Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister, Fanny’s articulate and informative letters – transcribed in full for the first time and situated in their meticulously researched historical context – disclose her quest for personal identity and autonomy, her maturation as a wife and mother, and the domestic, cultural, and social milieu she inhabited. Sheila Johnson Kindred also investigates how Fanny was a source of naval knowledge for Jane, and how much she was an inspiration for Austen’s literary invention, especially for the female naval characters in Persuasion. Although she died young, Fanny’s story is a compelling record of female naval life that contributes significantly to our limited knowledge of women’s roles in the Napoleonic Wars. Enhanced by rarely seen illustrations, Fanny’s life story is a rich new source for Jane Austen scholars and fans of her fiction as well as for those interested in biography, women’s letters, and history of the family.
Author: Mary Lascelles Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1847142028 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 239
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First published in 1939, Jane Austen and Her Art is a landmark in Jane Austen criticism. This was the first book to provide a full-scale account of the writer based upon thoroughhistorical and biographical scholarship; and on the critical front, Mary Lascelles broke new ground in applying the ideas of Henry James on the 'art' of the novel. In the years since the first publication of Jane Austen and Her Art, there has come an overwhelming body of critical writing about Jane Austen. But this classic study maintains its unique position, unchallenged and unimproved upon in its analysis of Jane Austen's style and narrative art and the experience of life and literature which formed the novels. A book for all students of Jane Austen, it is equally, as Winifred Husbands wrote in the Modern Language Review, a book for 'all lovers of Jane Austen'.
Author: Helena Kelly Publisher: Icon Books ISBN: 1785781170 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 412
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'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.
Author: Potter Gift Publisher: Clarkson Potter ISBN: 0307587428 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Let the wise words of Jane Austen inspire your next handwritten note. - With quotes and illustrations from the beloved Pride and Prejudice, these notecards are the ideal missive to send in any situation. - Four unique designs reproduced four times for a total of 16 notecards. - The perfect gift for the lover of letter-writing in your life.
Author: Jane Austen Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022665558X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 217
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice, which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and wisdom from her novels deserve to be better known, from Northanger Abbey on its lovable, naive heroine—“if adventures will not befal a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad”—to Persuasion’s moving lines of love from its regret-filled hero: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late.” Devoney Looser, a.k.a. Stone Cold Jane Austen, has drawn 378 genuine, Austen-authored passages from across the canon, resulting in an anthology that is compulsively readable and repeatable. Whether you approach the collection on a one-a-day model or in a satisfying binge read, you will emerge wiser about Austen, if not about life. The Daily Jane Austen will amuse and inspire skeptical beginners, Janeite experts, and every reader in between by showcasing some of the greatest sentences ever crafted in the history of fiction.
Author: Michael Suk-Young Chwe Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691162441 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behavior Game theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago—over a century before its mathematical development during the Cold War. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.
Author: K Carpenter Publisher: ISBN: 9780473555375 Category : Languages : en Pages : 122
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Looking for the perfect gift for the Jane Austen fan in your life? Best Loved Quotes is a very pretty Jane Austen themed coloring book for adults Inside you will find: ✓ 52 quotes to color - one quote for every week of the year! ✓ Plus pretty Floral illustrations. ✓ 8.5 by 11 inch sized pages ✓All printed on crisp white paper, on one side of the page only to help prevent show-through. All 52 quotes have been carefully selected from the Jane Austen novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion. Including: ♥ You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. ♥ If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ♥ You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. ♥ Know your own happiness. Whether choosing for a best friend, mother, or partner Best Loved Quotes - Jane Austen is sure to delight the special person in your life and show how much you love them.
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