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Jane Austen: (Amazing & Extraordinary Facts)

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In this absorbing collection of stories and trivia readers will find answers to the amazing and extraordinary aspects of Austen's life, work and legacy. From her development as a world-class author, secrets of her own life and loves, through insights into her novels and their characters along with the changing reception to them over the years. "The Amazing and Extraordinary Facts series" presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure. 50 b/w illustrations

Table of Contents:

1 Class act 10
2 'Bad reckoners' 12
3 112-year association 13
4 Happy home 15
5 Three grand houses 17
6 Second Farmer George 18
7 The Loiterer 20
8 Chosen as heir 22
9 Juvenile parody 25
10 Jane and Cassandra 27
11 Good friends 29
12 Leading lady 31
13 Death in the Caribbean 34
14 The Tom Lefroy affair 36
15 Novel beginnings 37
16 Wishful thinking? 39
17 Gold chains and topaz crosses 41
18 Strange scandal 43
19 'It's all settled!' 44
20 Affairs of the heart 47
21 Lure of Lyme 48
22 Sudden death 50
23 To the rescue 51
23 Opulent magnificence 53
24 Seaside interlude 55
25 Centre of creativity 57
26 Solitary sketch 59
27 First publication 59
28 'My own darling child' 63
29 Authorship revealed 65
30 Comic spirit 66
31 Universal truths 68
32 Mixed reactions 70
33 Delightful pilgrimage 72
34 'A rogue... but a civil one' 73
35 Scott's adulatory review 75
36 By royal permission 77
37 The duties of aunts 79
38 Cinderella revisited 82
39 In her sister's arms 84
40 Gothic parody 86
41 Literary genius ignored 88
42 Novel fragment 90
43 Early critics 91
44 'Highest esteem' 93
45 Facts of life 95
46 'Swell show' 96
47 Editor's hand 98
48 Cult status 100
49 White gowns and bonnets 101
50 Desert Island books 103
51 Darcymania 106
52 Zombie mash-up 107
53 Gripping continuation 108
54 Sparking a Twitterstorm 110
55 Social implications 112
56 Manly men 114
57 Spotlight on Cincinnati 116
58 Literary legacy 118
59 Screen legacy 120


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781910821121
  • Publisher: Rydon Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Rydon Publishing
  • Depth: 18
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1910821128
  • Publisher Date: 16 May 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 178 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Series Title: Amazing & Extraordinary Facts
  • Weight: 242 gr


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