Jane Austen
Author: Tomalin, Claire
ISBN: 9780241963272
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 10 Aug 2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
'Truly marvellous. I cannot think of a better life of Jane Austen than Claire Tomalin's' Philip Hensher
Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us 'a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the page' (Val Hennesy). And along the way it gives us an 'authoratative, graceful,succinct account of a wide swathe of English society which brilliantly illuminates' the novelist (Victoria Glendinning).
ISBN: 9780241963272
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 10 Aug 2012
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
'Truly marvellous. I cannot think of a better life of Jane Austen than Claire Tomalin's' Philip Hensher
Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us 'a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the page' (Val Hennesy). And along the way it gives us an 'authoratative, graceful,succinct account of a wide swathe of English society which brilliantly illuminates' the novelist (Victoria Glendinning).
