Jane Austen: A Life Tapa blanda - 1999
de Claire Tomalin
Providing detailed and absorbing accounts of Jane Austen's friendships and travels, Tomalin shatters the myth of the novelist as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village. of illustrations. Map.
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The winter of 1775 was a hard one.
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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 ingiving 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.
"From the Hardcover edition.
Detalles
- Título Jane Austen: A Life
- Autor Claire Tomalin
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición [ Edition: Repri
- Páginas 400
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Vintage, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 1999-04-27
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780679766766 / 0679766766
- Peso 0.88 libras (0.40 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.01 x 5.26 x 0.85 pulgadas (20.35 x 13.36 x 2.16 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Austen, Jane, Novelists, English - 19th century
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 97036887
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Library Journal, 07/01/2004, Page 130
- New York Times, 05/30/1999, Page 24
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