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Who was Jane Austen's 'model reader'? And what did she read? A witty new book by a leading Austen expert explores this and more.
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The Jane Austen Book Club, in book and film versions, believes that we can discover ourselves and our dilemmas in Austen's novels.
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Screen adaptations, an exhibition and accompanying book reveal the life and work of the author in a new light.
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Philip Hensher on why no adaptation could do a 10th of the things that a book of the baroque greatness of Bleak House does.
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, From the Most Eminent Prose Writers. Published by Wells and Lilly,...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Elegant Extracts is a collection of passages from eighteenth century sermons, histories, literature. Jane Austen gave this copy to her niece.
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