The Real Jane Austen - A Life in Small Things

Informationen zum Autor Paula Byrne is the author the bestselling biographies ‘Perdita’, ‘Mad World’, ‘The Real Jane Austen’, ‘Belle’, ‘Kick’ and ‘The Genius of Jane Austen’. She is founder and chief executive of ReLit, the Bibliotherapy Foundation, a charity devoted to the mental health benefits of reading. She is married to Sir Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford. Klappentext THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It is good to meet the real Jane Austen at last'Independent on Sunday 'Brilliantly illuminating ... by focusing, chapter by chapter, on one thread or another of Austen's experience, Byrne allows us to grasp the richness of her inner life'Guardian Zusammenfassung Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books.

Product details

• Authors: Paula Byrne, Byrne Paula
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9780007358342
• ISBN: 978-0-00-735834-2
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Series: William Collins; A Life in Small Things
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, English, Home Counties, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form