A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really
Автор:
Deresiewicz WilliamЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-27Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
43
In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the enduring power of Austen's teachings. Progressing from his days as an immature student to a happily married man, Deresiewicz's A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man's discovery of the world outside himself. A self-styled intellectual rebel dedicated to writers such as James Joyce and Joseph Conrad, Deresiewicz never thought Austen's novels would have anything to offer him. But when he was assigned to read Emma as a graduate student at Columbia, something extraordinary happened. Austen's devotion to the everyday, and her belief in the value of ordinary...
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