Two Guys Read Jane Austen

Author : Steve Chandler
Publisher : Robert Reed Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781934759172
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Guys Read Jane Austen written by Steve Chandler and published by Robert Reed Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book in the critically acclaimed Two Guys series by Steve Chandler and Terrence Hill. This time the two guys take on their biggest challenge yet-Jane Austen. Follow their wild and often hilarious exchanges as they fly through Pride and Prejudice and the darker, more complex Mansfield Park. Often veering off into the worlds of music, sports, and history, both of these accomplished writers draw upon their lifelong friendships and shared childhood memories to give dimension to their deeply personal responses to Jane Austen's writing. These same zany digressions and non sequiturs were widely hailed in their first two books in this series, Two Guys Read Moby-Dick and Two Guys Read the Obituaries. Terrence Hill and Steve Chandler share their humorous and touching commentaries and debates with their readers in a way unlike any other, a testimony to their 53-year friendship.

Author : William Deresiewicz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101514175
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Jane Austen Education written by William Deresiewicz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz's A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man's discovery of the world outside himself. A self-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writers such as James Joyce and Joseph Conrad, Deresiewicz never thought Austen's novels would have anything to offer him. But when he was assigned to read Emma as a graduate student at Columbia, something extraordinary happened. Austen's devotion to the everyday, and her belief in the value of ordinary lives, ignited something in Deresiewicz. He began viewing the world through Austen's eyes and treating those around him as generously as Austen treated her characters. Along the way, Deresiewicz was amazed to discover that the people in his life developed the depth and richness of literary characters-that his own life had suddenly acquired all the fascination of a novel. His real education had finally begun. Weaving his own story-and Austen's-around the ones her novels tell, Deresiewicz shows how her books are both about education and themselves an education. Her heroines learn about friendship and feeling, staying young and being good, and, of course, love. As they grow up, they learn lessons that are imparted to Austen's reader, who learns and grows by their sides. A Jane Austen Education is a testament to the transformative power of literature, a celebration of Austen's mastery, and a joy to read. Whether for a newcomer to Austen or a lifelong devotee, Deresiewicz brings fresh insights to the novelist and her beloved works. Ultimately, Austen's world becomes indelibly entwined with our own, showing the relevance of her message and the triumph of her vision.

Author : Deborah Yaffe
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547757735
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among the Janeites written by Deborah Yaffe and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With warmth and humor, lifelong Janeite Deborah Yaffe opens the door on the quirky, thriving subculture of Jane Austen fandom.

Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : Crimeline
ISBN 13 : 0307486540
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane and the Man of the Cloth written by Stephanie Barron and published by Crimeline. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For everyone who loves Jane Austen . . . the second tantalizing mystery in a new series that transforms the beloved author into a dazzling sleuth! Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis. Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house. And it is there that Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth. What murky secrets does the brooding Mr. Sidmouth seek to hide? Jane suspects the worst—but her attention is swiftly diverted when a man is discovered hanged from a makeshift gibbet by the sea. The worthies of Lyme are certain his death is the work of “the Reverend,” the ringleader of the midnight smuggling trade whose identity is the town's paramount mystery. Now, it falls to Jane to entrap and expose the notorious Reverend . . . even if the evidence points to the last person on earth she wants to suspect . . . a man who already may have won her heart.

Author : Sally Smith O' Rourke
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758243081
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Loved Jane Austen written by Sally Smith O' Rourke and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When New York artist Eliza Knight buys an old vanity table one lazy Sunday afternoon, she has no idea of its history. Tucked away behind the mirror are two letters. One is sealed; the other, dated May 1810, is addressed to "Dearest Jane" from "F. Darcy"--as in Fitzwilliam Darcy, the fictional hero of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Could one of literature's most compelling characters been a real person? More intriguing still, scientific testing proves that the second, sealed letter was written by Jane herself. Caught between the routine of her present life and these incredible discoveries from the past, Eliza decides to look deeper and is drawn to a majestic, 200-year-old estate in Virginia's breathtaking Shenandoah Valley. There she meets the man who may hold the answer to this extraordinary puzzle. Now, as the real story of Fitzwilliam Darcy unfolds, Eliza finds her life has become a modern-day romance, one that perhaps only Jane herself could have written. . . "Fascinating. . .pays tribute to Jane Austen's enduring ideals of romantic love." --Booklist "O'Rourke's latest is mysterious yet romantic as she reveals secrets of Jane Austen's life." --Romantic Times Sally Smith O'Rourke lives in Monrovia, California, where she is working on her next novel.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026882407
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma & Persuasion written by Jane Austen and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Emma & Persuasion" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Emma" – Emma Woodhouse has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her friend and former governess, to Mr. Weston. Having introduced them, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she likes matchmaking. Against the advice of her brother-in-law, Emma forges ahead with her new interest, causing many controversies in the process. Set in the fictional village of Highbury, Emma is a tale about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. "Persuasion" – Anne Elliot is a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt, at the same time as the wars come to an end, putting sailors on shore. They rent their home to an Admiral and his wife. Brother of Admiral's wife is Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, a man who had been engaged to Anne when she was 19, and now they meet again, both single and unattached, after no contact in more than seven years. First time the engagement was broken up because Anne's family persuaded her that Frederick wasn't good enough opportunity. The new situation offers a second, well-considered chance at love and marriage for Anne Elliot in her second "bloom".

Author : Sophia Bedford-Pierce
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 144130181X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book written by Sophia Bedford-Pierce and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austen's Novels ... written by Jane Austen and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Collector's Library
ISBN 13 : 9781905716753
Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma and Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the BBC TV four-part serialisation of EMMA in autumn 2009.

Author : Audrey Hawkridge
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720611649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane and Her Gentlemen written by Audrey Hawkridge and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: