Jane Austen: Her Life

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"Readers have long cherished the brilliant, ironic novels of Jane Austen and critics have ranked them with the masterpieces of world literature, but surprisingly, there has been no major biography of the novelist over seventy years. Park Honan's highly acclaimed Jane Austen: Her Life is the biography that Austen - and her readers - have long deserved.

Drawing on a treasure trove of new material, Honan reveals an Austen surprising in her knowledge of the Napoleonic Wars (two of her brothers fought in the British Navy and rose to the rank of admiral) and surprising as well is her romantic entanglements - an engagement that lasted but a night, a bold flirtation that very nearly erupted into a scandal. Above all, Honan sheds new light on Austen's social experience, giving new prominence to her large and fascinating family, and the Regency society in which she moved.

Readers of Jane Austen: Her Life will return to the novels not only with new understanding of the person who creative but with a vivid sense of the society from which thy were drawn."

Publisher : Ballantine Books (April 8, 1989)
Language : English
Paperback : 484 pages
ISBN-10 : 0449903192
ISBN-13 : 978-0449903193
Item Weight : 1.58 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches