Life in the Country - Couverture rigide

Welland, Freydis

 
9780712349857: Life in the Country
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0712349855 ISBN 13 : 9780712349857
Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 2008

Synopsis

This beautiful book combines quotations by Jane Austen with charming silhouette drawings by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh which have never before been made available to a wide audience. To quote from the preface: 'These delightful silhouettes have brought pleasure to the Austen family for generations...they retain the same freshness, vigour and charm that make Jane Austen's writings so engaging. Jane said in a letter to her sister Caroline, written from Chawton in 1817: 'We were happy to see Edward, it was an unexpected pleasure and he makes himself as agreeable as ever, sitting in such a quiet comfortable way making his delightful sketches'.He later brought the fine art of silhouette to perfection, creating wonderfully evocative images of landscapes and the creatures that lived there...Jane Austen's lively text and her nephew's astute observations of nature combine in a way that uniquely illustrates their perspectives on life in the English countryside. This will be the trade edition of a fine-press book published in 2005.

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À propos de l?auteur

Freydis Welland is creator of the book, the owner of the silhouette album and a descendant of Jane Austen.

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Éditeur
The British Library Publishing Division
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0712349855
ISBN 13 
9780712349857
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
112
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible