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S'està carregant… Jane Austen and Her Worldde Marghanita Laski
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This is a competent, readable, brief biography of Jane Austen. It is illustrated with 137 black-and-white illustrations. As a short biography, it is not on the level of Carol Shield's Jane Austen (Penguin Lives), but perhaps the reader wants the illustrations and the slightly easier read. A title somewhat similar to this is England's Jane by Juliane Poirier Locke; that is considered to be a juvenile, but I wouldn't scorn it for that. This book has a little more of the detail external to Jane's life--dates, people she knew, etc. The illustrations are a mixed bag. A number of them, surprisingly for a Thames and Hudson book, are of quite poor quality. A lot of them, however, are nicely reproduced contemporary or near-contemporary illustrations of places associated with Jane Austen. They are so nice, that although I read a library copy of this, I am considering it for my own collection just for the pictures. The pporly reproduced pictures are mostly portraits, which I generally have copies of in other books. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu in which she spent her life and which she describes so memorably in her novels. Her environment provided her with material ideally suited to her talents: accurate observation of character, wit, dramatic intuition, an ear for realistic dialogue and a highly disciplined formal sense. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The language occasionally shifts into a more academic mode occasionally but overall it reads almost like a well done website on the author. ( )