Miss Jane Austen S Guide To Modern Life S Dilemmas

Author : Rebecca Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781101601914

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Miss Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas by Rebecca Smith Pdf

Is the man I’m dating Mr. Darcy in disguise. . . or simply a jerk? It’s been two centuries since Jane Austen penned Pride & Prejudice and her many other classic novels, yet her adroit observations on the social landscape and profound insights into human nature are as relevant now as they were in her time. If only those of us in need of some good advice today had the opportunity to sit down and tap even a few drops from Austen’s great reservoirs of wisdom. Well, now we do. . . . In Miss Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Dilemmas, Rebecca Smith channels her great-great-great-great-great aunt’s sense—and, of course, her sensibility—to help readers navigate their most pressing problems. Drawing on Austen’s novels, letters, and unpublished writings, Smith supplies readers with wise and wonderful counsel for living well in the 21st century. From instruction on how to gracefully “unfriend” someone on Facebook to answers for such timeless questions as “Can a man ever really change?” this book enables readers to nimbly navigate life’s most tricky terrain with the good sense, good manners, and abundant humor that are the mark of any great Austen heroine. Sensible, savvy, and funny, Miss Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Dilemmas cleverly answers every Austen fan’s most earnest question: What would Jane do? Replete with lovely Austen-inspired color illustrations, as well as quotes from Austen’s various novels to support the advice given, this book is the ideal gift for the Jane Austen fanatic in your life.

Author : Rebecca Smith
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Life skills
ISBN : 1908005459

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Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas by Rebecca Smith Pdf

If Jane Austen were with us today, she would have her own agony aunt column. This guide to modern dilemmas looks at work, domestic and romantic issues, and solves them using Jane's unsentimental view of life, love and money.

Author : Rebecca Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Life skills
ISBN : 1782401644

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Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas by Rebecca Smith Pdf

Jane Austen is more of a celebrity and media queen now than she was in her lifetime. As a forensic observer of the social scene, with a mordant wit, ironic eye, and a sly way of puncturing pretension and seeing past the social faç ade, there is no doubt that if she had been with us today, she would have had her own column in an upmarket glossy a stylish, smartcookie agony aunt. Unfortunately, she did not get the opportunity, and so Jane Austens Guide to Modern Lifes Dilemmas is a crack at showing what it might have been like. This is a smart, sassy look at modern work, domestic, and romantic dilemmas, answered not by Jane Austen herself, but using her clear-eyed, witty, unsentimental view of life, love, and money with quotations from her books, letters, and unpublished writing as back-up. Treat it like a new and sensible best friend, to turn to whenever you are confronting lifes dilemmas (how can I stop saying yes to everything, what do I wear to a society wedding, is internet dating just for the desperate, etc).

Author : Charles Jennings
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780330471

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A Brief Guide to Jane Austen by Charles Jennings Pdf

Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the finest prose stylists in literature; the first truly modern writer, the Godmother of chick lit. She is also the greatest enigma (next to Shakespeare) in English literature. Soldiers in the First World War sat in the trenches and read them for the civilising comforts they provided. Hard-nut literary critics such as F. R. Leavis lauded their austere complexity. World Book Day, 2007, found that Pride and Prejudice was the one book 'The nation can't live without'. In this witty, accessible guide, Charles Jennings goes in search of this enigma through her words as well as her times, including a short biography, an overview of the novels, as well as the world that she inhabited. Finally, the book contains Jane's very own words of advice for the modern life.

Author : May Lamberton Becker
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781932350074

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Presenting Miss Jane Austen by May Lamberton Becker Pdf

This outstanding biography of a well-beloved novelist catches the spirit of Jane Austen herself. May Lamberton Becker enjoyably introduces us to the 18th and early 19th century world Miss Austen lived in¿her family, her friends, her varied settings and her many keen interests¿as we are given insight to the personal background of all the Austen novels. Enlivening her narrative with many quotations from Jane Austen¿s own correspondence, Miss Becker puts her own enthusiastic appreciation of one of the world¿s most delightful writers at our disposal.

Author : Diana Birchall
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402234866

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Mrs. Darcy's Dilemma by Diana Birchall Pdf

Beginning twenty-five years after Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding, their life together has been wonderful and their marriage is still thriving. Their grown children bring them great delight, along with some trepidation, Mrs. Darcy's nieces come for a visit, and a theatrical scandal threatens to embroil them all. The Victorian age is dawning, and Pemberley's new generation is coming into their own. "The very title makes you want to read it right away! Fascinating, and such wonderful use of language." —Joan Austen-Leigh "Birchall's witty, elegant visit to the middle-aged Darcys is a delight." —Professor Janet Todd, University of Glasgow "A refreshing and entertaining look at the Darcys some years after Pride and Prejudice from a most accomplished author. —Jenny Scott, author of After Jane

Author : Lori Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780762785186

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Jane Austen's Guide to Life by Lori Smith Pdf

Jane Austen has become our patron saint of romance, our goddess of happy endings. Her name is synonymous with romantic sighs, period costumes, and the ideal of what love should be. But if she could give us advice about life and love, what would she tell us? What would she make of Match.com, of our Real Housewives, or of our obsession with finding The One? Austen’s stories give us relationship advice that still works today, but her life offers us so much more wisdom than just that pertaining to love. In our fame-obsessed culture, it’s refreshing to think that Austen preferred to remain anonymous. Ironically, Jane Austen—master of love stories—never married and can teach us something about being single. She also endured many painful circumstances and managed them with grace and humor. In this light biography and guide, author Lori Smith surmises about Austen’s sensible advice for twenty-first-century women—on everything from living our dreams, being a woman of substance, finding a good man, managing money, and much more. As such an astute student of human nature, Austen can teach us an awful lot about ourselves and about what it means to live well.

Author : Margaret C. Sullivan
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1594741719

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The Jane Austen Handbook by Margaret C. Sullivan Pdf

Jane Austen is a contemporary pop-culture phenom. Her life and novels have inspired feature film adaptations, the upcoming biopic Becoming Jane, sequels, fan fiction, blogs and podcasts. This charmingly illustrated literary extension of the Handbook series is based on Austen novels but filled with modern insights, including how to decline a marriage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781782405276

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Author : Rebecca Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 9781408866054

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The Jane Austen Writers' Club by Rebecca Smith Pdf

Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be relevant two centuries after her death. Here Rebecca Smith examines the major aspects of writing fiction--plotting, characterisation, openings and endings, dialogue, settings, and writing methods--sharing the advice Austen gave in letters to her aspiring novelist nieces and nephew, and providing many and varied exercises for writers to try, using examples from Austen's work.

Author : Patrice Hannon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101213551

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Dear Jane Austen by Patrice Hannon Pdf

Advice delivered with sense and sensibility just in time for the major motion picture Becoming Jane Women have looked to Jane Austen’s heroines as models of appropriate behavior for nearly two centuries. Who better to understand the heart of a heroine than Austen? In this delightful epistolary “what if,” Austen serves as a “Dear Abby” of sorts, using examples from her novels and her life to counsel modern-day heroines in trouble, she also shares with readers a compelling drama playing out in her own drawing room. Witty and wise—and perfectly capturing the tone of the author of Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice—Dear Jane Austen is as satisfying as sitting down to tea with the novelist herself.

Author : Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781118050545

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Jane Austen For Dummies by Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray Pdf

Explains Austen's methods, motivations, and morals The fun and easy way(r) to understand and enjoy Jane Austen Want to know more about Jane Austen? This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life, examines each of her novels, and looks at why her stories - of women and marriage, class and money, scandal and hypocrisy, emotion and satire - still have meaning for us today. Discover * Why Austen is so popular * The impact on manners, courtships, and dating * Love and life in Austen's world * Her life and key influences * Her most memorable characters

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781621075707

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Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling) by Jane Austen Pdf

How can you appreciate Jane Austen when you have no idea what she’s saying?! If you’ve ever sat down with one of the original scribes of romance fiction, and find yourself scratching your head wondering what she’s saying then this bundled book is just for you! Inside you will find a comprehensive study guide, a biography about the life and times of Austen, and a modern retelling (along with the original text) of Austen’s Persuasion. Each section of this book may also be purchased individually.

Author : Catherine Delafield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781119779346

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The Life of the Author: Jane Austen by Catherine Delafield Pdf

A fresh approach to building the life of Jane Austen through her letters, demonstrating that a well-known life can be reframed by being grounded in evidence of that life The Life of the Author: Jane Austen takes readers on a literary-biographical journey through Austen's life in letters. Using a unique non-linear approach, author Catherine Delafield explores three frames for Austen's literary life—family, correspondents, and fiction—to suggest new pathways for the interpretation of life writing about one of the most popular and influential English novelists of all time. Delafield addresses multiple aspects of Austen's epistolary practice and the ways in which her letters, juvenile writings, and unpublished novels have been overlaid on both biography and fiction. Throughout the text, special attention is paid to the changing view of women’s correspondence as personal record and to Cassandra Austen's role as editor of her sister’s surviving letters. The book opens with selected readings from Austen's letters and a review of the family treatment of the life. Subsequent chapters discuss the female circle of correspondents in both extant and missing letters, the letter content and structure of Austen's novels, the use of letters as representations of places and spaces based on Austen's own lived experience of epistolary communication, and more. Discusses how the letters, correspondents, and novels supplement Jane Austen’s fiction and substantiate her life Highlights Austen's use of the letter as a conversation on paper, rather than as an autobiographical tool Explores the letters within Austen's fictional writing as well as recipes, accounts, and needlework with links to the letters Features a select chronology using letters as landmarks, tables representing surviving letters by correspondent, and family trees tracing names and relationships The Life of the Author: Jane Austen is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate courses on the novel, women's writing, British writing, and life writing, as well as for general readers with interest in gaining new perspectives on Austen's chronological life and literary output.

Author : Áine Madden
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031394546

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Expanding Austenland by Áine Madden Pdf

Expanding Austenland: The Pride and Prejudice Fanfiction Archive explores Jane Austen’s reception in popular culture through an exploration of the ever-expanding terrain of online fanfiction, professionally published (profic) texts, and other intertextual reworkings inspired by the author’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. The book argues that given its pervasiveness, Pride and Prejudice could be usefully considered not as a single novel, but as an entire ‘archive’ of interrelated texts, or as a portal that opens a ‘virtual world’ for readers to expand and explore. By examining the Pride and Prejudice archive of interrelated texts, this book analyses the process through which an individual novel can develop a virtual life, or afterlife. The evolving world that is opened by Pride and Prejudice, and extended and enriched through fanfiction, is conceptualised in the monograph as ‘Austenland’.