ISBN: 9780679446286

Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless call… mais…

Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in the conduct of her own life, unfailing bravery. In an act of understanding and brilliant synthesis, Claire Tomalin reveals Jane Austen with a clarity never before achieved, one which makes us look upon her novels with fresh and even greater admiration. The world she wrote about--that place of civility and reassuring stability--was never quite her own. As Tomalin shows, Jane Austen's family existed on the very fringe of the world she described in her fiction, struggling to get ahead with little money and no land in the competitive society of Georgian England, sometimes succeeding but often failing with painful consequences. New research in family papers has yielded a rich, tragicomic picture of the Austen clan--their ambitions, their matrimonial alliances, their exotic connections with India and France. At the same time, Tomalin's explorations in local archives reveal a surprising view of the neighbors the family lived among in Hampshire, more extravagant and eccentric by far than anyone depicted in Austen's books. We realize how much closer her genius lies, in its splendid artifice, to the great comic operas of Mozart than to the main tradition of the English novel. But it is in the deeply human portrait of Jane Austen herself that this biography excels. The honesty and directness of her personality (perfect heroines made her "sick and wicked"), her strength in giving up a chance at marriage to follow the path her vocation as a writer required her to take, the warmth and long consistency of her relationship with her sister, Cassandra, the poignancy of her death--Claire Tomalin here captures, with unforgettable skill, the living character of a great writer who is read, reread, read again, and adored, now more than ever. Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]<

ISBN: 9780679446286

Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless call… mais…

Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in the conduct of her own life, unfailing bravery. In an act of understanding and brilliant synthesis, Claire Tomalin reveals Jane Austen with a clarity never before achieved, one which makes us look upon her novels with fresh and even greater admiration. The world she wrote about--that place of civility and reassuring stability--was never quite her own. As Tomalin shows, Jane Austen's family existed on the very fringe of the world she described in her fiction, struggling to get ahead with little money and no land in the competitive society of Georgian England, sometimes succeeding but often failing with painful consequences. New research in family papers has yielded a rich, tragicomic picture of the Austen clan--their ambitions, their matrimonial alliances, their exotic connections with India and France. At the same time, Tomalin's explorations in local archives reveal a surprising view of the neighbors the family lived among in Hampshire, more extravagant and eccentric by far than anyone depicted in Austen's books. We realize how much closer her genius lies, in its splendid artifice, to the great comic operas of Mozart than to the main tradition of the English novel. But it is in the deeply human portrait of Jane Austen herself that this biography excels. The honesty and directness of her personality (perfect heroines made her "sick and wicked"), her strength in giving up a chance at marriage to follow the path her vocation as a writer required her to take, the warmth and long consistency of her relationship with her sister, Cassandra, the poignancy of her death--Claire Tomalin here captures, with unforgettable skill, the living character of a great writer who is read, reread, read again, and adored, now more than ever. Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]<

1997, ISBN: 0679446281

Edição encadernada, primeira edição

[SC: 36.45], [PU: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997], Jacket, near fine dust-jacket, slightly uneven at top of spine, cover price $27.50, fresh attractive copy, very good red brown and crea… mais…

[SC: 36.45], [PU: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997], Jacket, near fine dust-jacket, slightly uneven at top of spine, cover price $27.50, fresh attractive copy, very good red brown and cream white hardcover. SIGNED on title page, simply: Claire Tomalin. TOMALIN, CLAIRE. Jane Austen: a life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997, stated First American edition, xiv, 341pp., . Life of Jane Austen, the"real" woman, and her tangential relationship with society life of Georgian England. - CONTENTS: Map Showing Steventon and the Austens' Hampshire Neighbours -- 1775 -- Meritocrats -- Boys -- School -- The French Connection -- Bad Behaviour -- Weddings and Funerals -- Neighbour -- Dancing -- The Doll and the Poker -- A Letter -- Defence Systems -- Friends in East Kent -- Travels with My Mother -- Three Books -- Twenty-five -- Manydown -- Brotherly Love -- A Death in the Family -- At Chawton -- Inside Mansfield Park -- The Sorceress -- College Street -- Postscript -- A Note on Jane Austen's Last Illness -- "An African Story" from Fanny Austen's Pocket-book, 1809, with a Note on Attitudes to Slavery -- Short Bibliography -- Family Tree. 9780679446286 ISBN 0679446281<

1997, ISBN: 9780679446286

Hardcover book. 352 pages. Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (1997) Media > Book, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]