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

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

William Deresiewicz

255 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir informative reflective slow-paced
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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, De...

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inspiring 62%
informative 56%
emotional 31%
lighthearted 25%
funny 18%
challenging 6%
hopeful 6%
relaxing 6%

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