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Jane Austen: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Carol Shields is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jane Austen: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) about?
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 awardwinning novelist, Carol Shieldss magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.
Who reads Jane Austen: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Carol Shields
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670894888
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (2,041 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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