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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

Author William Deresiewicz

Format Paperback

Publisher Penguin Books

Category Literary Criticism

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Before Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emma�and everything changed. In this unique and lyrical book, Deresiewicz weaves the misadventures of Austen�s characters with his own youthful follies, demonstrating the power of the great novelist�s teachings�and how, for Austen, growing up and making mistakes are one and the same. Honest, erudite, and deeply moving, A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man�s discovery of the world outside himself.

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William Deresiewicz

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Release Date: 2012-04-24
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143121251

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