A review by lory_enterenchanted
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan

informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed this, a work of popular criticism that is perceptive, intelligent, insightful, and manages not to analyze its subject into insensibility. It brought out so many details in Austen that I had never noticed before, wrapped up as I've been in the flow of her narrative - which Mullan convincingly demonstrates is both artful and innovative. Now I want to read her again to appreciate her all the more.