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Jane Austen

A Life

A Life

By Carol Shields

By Carol Shields

By Carol Shields

By Carol Shields

By Carol Shields
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By Carol Shields
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May 31, 2005 | ISBN 9780143035169

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May 31, 2005 | ISBN 9781101099575

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Jan 29, 2001 | 311 Minutes

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    About Jane Austen

    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.

    About Jane Austen

    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.

    About Jane Austen

    With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Shields here explores the life of a writer whose own novels have delighted readers for the past 200 years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb novelist from her early family life in Steventon 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 a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Carol Shields’s magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.

    “This tightly written biography brings Austen to life in a way rarely seen. Here she is the living, breathing woman not the prim literary classic. Outstanding job.”—Booklist

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    Also by Carol Shields

    The Stone Diaries
    Dropped Threads 2
    Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
    Dressing Up for the Carnival
    Larry's Party
    See all books by Carol Shields

    Also by Carol Shields

    The Stone Diaries
    Dropped Threads 2
    Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
    Dressing Up for the Carnival
    Larry's Party
    See all books by Carol Shields

    About Carol Shields

    Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and… More about Carol Shields

    About Carol Shields

    Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and… More about Carol Shields

    About Carol Shields

    Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and… More about Carol Shields

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    May 31, 2005 | 192 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-1/8 | ISBN 9780143035169

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    May 31, 2005 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9781101099575

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Criticism | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jan 29, 2001 | 311 Minutes | ISBN 9781415911013

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