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La Vita Secondo Jane Austen (2012)

by William Deresiewicz(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8850227086 (ISBN13: 9788850227082)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

TEA

review 1: While I have long favored team Bronte (Charlotte and Emily especially) over Austen, this amazing book pushed me to read the rest of her novels (I had only read Emma and Pride and Prejudice before), and found much more to love, thanks to Deresiewicz's enthusiasm. Each chapter focuses on how a specific Austen novel helped the author navigate a struggle in growing up. Each chapter also contains just enough plot description and Austen biography to give a reader unfamiliar with Austen's work an idea of the central ideas and characters. If you don't want spoilers, read the six Austen classics first. Probably by that time you will love Austen as much as Deresiewicz.
review 2: This Golden One-Way ticket to an elite Austenite Society was found at a garage sale of al... morel places! The book cover caught one’s eye, and it was essentially the discovery of treasure. William Deresiewicz opens my eyes to what is so special about Jane Austen, and I'm now in awe. Jane Austen was very unusual in that she had a front row seat to high society, and rather than let it faze her, she used that position to make observations so astute that they border on genius. Jane Austen was not well traveled but she was one of the worldliest people who ever lived. Having read this book, I can discuss Jane Austen with the best of them, however no Austenite would accept me into their exclusive membership because Pride and Prejudice is the only Austen I have read. Sense and Sensibility might be my next Jane Austen. However, that will be awhile as I have a stack of other books to read! Such is the life of a reader! Another note: The last page of A Jane Austen Education is the best last page I have ever read! less

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crazybell

While I have long favored team Bronte (Charlotte and Emily especially) over Austen, this amazing book pushed me to read the rest of her novels (I had only read Emma and Pride and Prejudice before), and found much more to love, thanks to Deresiewicz's enthusiasm. Each chapter focuses on how a specific Austen novel helped the author navigate a struggle in growing up. Each chapter also contains just enough plot description and Austen biography to give a reader unfamiliar with Austen's work an idea of the central ideas and characters. If you don't want spoilers, read the six Austen classics first. Probably by that time you will love Austen as much as Deresiewicz.

bowman226

What would have been an overly sentimental, moralistic, and fan-gushing, read -- turns out to be a very well-wrought memoir, that combines both nuanced reading and sensitive retrospection. Austen created memorable, mature, and magnificent characters. William Deresiewicz, likewise, gives us an intimate and sensitive portrayal of his family, friends, and above all, himself, in this literary-memoir. The memoir's ending is a stroke of genius.

Rae

like the author I missed out on Austen, Bronte in college, so much insight from their books

Jeesssiiiccaaa

This was a delightful book. I love a man who extolls the virtues of Jane!!!

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