Jane Austen - Couverture souple

Shields, Carol

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753812568 ISBN 13 : 9780753812563

Editeur : W&N, 2003

Synopsis

Jane Austen Bestselling novelist with an enormous critical reputation takes on one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Bestselling novelist with an enormous critical reputation takes on one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all.

The prizewinning novelist Carol Shields, whose novels have themselves been compared to the works of Jane Austen, gives us a beautifully written, perceptive look at the life of one of the finest and most popular English novelists of all time.

Jane Austen spent the first 25 years of her life in Steventon and the last eight in nearby Chawton, and did most of her writing in these two places. She never married although many of her novels are about marriage, and always lived with her parents and sister Cassandra. Whilst not unaware of the larger political and social goings-on at the time, she chose a small canvas for her novels, preferring to focus on the family as a microcosm through which to explore human nature.

Carol Shields has written a wonderfully observant and revealing biography of this remarkable writer whose characters are as alive today as they were two hundred years ago, when Jane Austen first gave them breath.

'An excellent biography' Mail on Sunday

Présentation de l'éditeur :

With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. She reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. With its fascinating insights into the writing process from an award–winning novelist, Carol Shields’s magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W&N
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0753812568
• ISBN 13: 9780753812563
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208