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Jane Austen

26 Ratings: 3.5

A British Regency period author.

Jane Austen's novels include Persuasion, Price & Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Sense & Sensibility and the epistolary Lady Susan.

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review by ChristysBookBlog1. May 16, 2010

Biography focusing on faith sheds new light on author

Christian Encounters: Jane Austen by Peter Leithart is the newest edition in a terrific series about famous Christians in history. I am a big Austen fan, but I've never read any of her biographies. Although she's been dead for nearly two hundred years, her popularity continues to grow with the constant updates of movies based on her popular novels, as well as in novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Creatures. Jane's image has undergone several incarnations … more

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review by Nukegirl. March 11, 2009

Jane Austen Wrote Romance, But It's The Wit That Stands Out

Let's get this straight. I do not read romance novels. Well, not regularly anyway. I don't consider Jane Austen's books to be brilliant because of the romance, and I consider many of the "sequels" other people have written to be mostly failures if they focus on the romance and not on the wit. Jane Austen's books are classics because of her characterizations and her way of portraying English society. The people seem real, and ridiculous, and smartly written. She's been criticized … more

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