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

By William Deresiewicz

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1594202885, 9781594202889
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
323 kB (330830 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
272\0
Time added
2017-09-26 00:04:23
Memoirs;Biographies & Memoirs;General;History & Cr

Description

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.

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