Jane Austen (Paperback, Main)

'Pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked,' Jane Austen wrote to her niece Fanny Knight a few months before she died. Yet most traditional accounts of Austen's life have insisted on portraying her as just such a picture of perfection. In his 1997 biography David Nokes re-examined Austen, and presented a far richer and livelier picture of the woman who once wrote in another of her letters, 'If I am a wild beast, I cannot help it ...'. 'A fine book, probably the best tribute to the genius of Jane.' Glasgow Herald '[This book] cries out to be read, not alone by fans of Jane Austen but by anyone who enjoys a great, witty, gossipy read.' Irish Times 'What fun Nokes's book is.' Fay Weldon, Independent 'David Nokes is assertive, energetic, opinionated, satirical, supremely confident, dramatising and gleefully splenetic.' Hermione Lee

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2014
Authors:	David Nokes
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	598
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-31678-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	0-571-31678-6
Barcode:	9780571316786

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