The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes

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Críticas Pocket-sized at 4.5 x 7.2 inches slip this into your reticule and pop it out when you need an escape from the dental drill. I can think of nothing better to put me in my happy place.--Austenprose This slim volume is the perfect stocking stuffer for the Janeite in your life. . . . At under 200 pages it packs a lot of pleasure in a fast read.--NewsWhistle Before I even power up I read a quote from Austen scholar Devoney Looser's The Daily Jane Austen . . . . This is a must for any Janeite's desk bedside table kitchen counter . . . or wherever you start your day.--The Quill Ink Reseña del editor It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently delightfully and delectably quotable. This truth goes far beyond the first line of Pride and Prejudice which has muscled out many other excellent sentences. So many gems of wit and wisdom from her novels deserve to be better known from Northanger Abbey on its lovable naive heroine—“if adventures will not befal a young lady in her own village she must seek them abroad”—to Persuasion’s moving lines of love from its regret-filled hero: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony half hope. Tell me not that I am too late.” Devoney Looser a.k.a. Stone Cold Jane Austen has drawn 378 genuine Austen-authored passages from across the canon resulting in an anthology that is compulsively readable and repeatable. Whether you approach the collection on a one-a-day model or in a satisfying binge read you will emerge wiser about Austen if not about life. The Daily Jane Austen will amuse and inspire skeptical beginners Janeite experts and every reader in between by showcasing some of the greatest sentences ever crafted in the history of fiction. Biografía del autor Jane Austen (1775-1817) is regarded by many as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Though her work was not widely known during her lifetime Austen is today a household name and her six full-length novels are considered timeless literary classics. Devoney Looser is Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She is the author of many books including most recently The Making of Jane Austen and the editor of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Sense and Sensibility. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic New York Times Salon Times Literary Supplement and Entertainment Weekly.