The Real Jane Austen - A Life in Small Things

In The Real Jane Austen , acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist. Just as letters and tokens in Jane Austen's novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things - a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature - that held significance in Austen's personal and creative life. Byrne transports us to different worlds, from the East Indies to revolutionary Paris, and to different events, from a high society scandal to a case of petty shoplifting. In this ground-breaking biography, Austen is set on a wider stage than ever before, revealing a well-traveled and politically aware writer - important aspects of her artistic development that have long been overlooked. The Real Jane Austen is a fresh, compelling, and surprising biography of the author of some of our most enduring classic books - from Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility, Emma to Persuasion - and a vivid evocation of the world that shaped her.

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"[Byrne] breathes yet more life into Austen and her works by considering the objects that populated her days.... [The] thematic approach offers a revealing picture of Austen and a lively social history....paints a fresh and vivid picture of an inimitable woman." The Economist

Product details

• Authors: Paula Byrne
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.01.2014
• EAN: 9780061999109
• ISBN: 978-0-06-199910-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 206 mm x 26 mm
• Series: HarperPerennial; Harper Perennial
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Austen, Jane, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FILM STUDIES: HISTORY, HISTORY: Women, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, LITERATURE: LITERARY CRITICISM, FILM STUDIES: THEORY & APPRECIATION, WOMEN'S STUDIES: THEORY, LITERATURE: CULTURAL STUDIES, Film Studies / History, Literature / Literary Criticism, Literature / Women's Literature, Literature / Cultural Studies, Women's Studies / Theory, Film Studies / Theory & Appreciation