As a fan of the timeless messages in the Jane Austen novels, there is new territory to explore in this author's exploration of not only himself and his world view, but the Austen novels and how they influenced him in a very profound manner.
"Deresiewicz also offers a refreshingly clear cultural and historical reading of each novel, and the combination of the scholarly and the personal provides entirely new ways of looking at novels that I thought I already thoroughly knew. This is how "literary memoir" should be defined — not as a fake autobiography, but as a personal account of reading books that matter."
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The novel he has written will explain and amuse fans of Jane Austen books and foster new insights into the characters' motives that are as viable today as when these novels were written.
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