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Product details
- ISBN 9780199210992
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What is it about Jane Austen's writing that brings such pleasure? There are good, even great novelists who are not good storytellers, and there are highly gifted storytellers who write thoroughly bad books. Jane Austen was both a very good storyteller and a great novelist. How did she do it? Richard Jenkyns's sparkling study delights in Austen's craft, wit, and pathos. His deep reading of the novels illuminates the subtlety, depth, and innovation that lie within them. He explores the development of her style, storytelling, and characterization, her technical prowess, and her place in comparison with her contemporaries, with a grace and wit worthy of the subject herself. All who read this book will come away with their admiration for Austen deepened, and their pleasure in her work enhanced.
Richard Jenkyns is Professor of the Classical Tradition and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
