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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz

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An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. 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 out...0 points

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool

For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century more...0 points

For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's prison," here is a "delightful reader's companion that lights up the literary dark" (The New York Times). This fascinating, lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules, regulations, and customs that governed everyday life in Victorian En...0 points

Jane Austen (Collector's Library Editions in Colour) by Jane Austen

This title includes more than two hundred full col more...0 points

This title includes more than two hundred full colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson. All Jane Austen's novels are presented in one volume. It features Jane Austen's romantic world captured by her finest illustrator, Hugh Thomson. It also includes Thomson's beautiful and evocative illustrations hand-coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's finest colourists. Barbara Frith's renderings of Hugh Thomson's illustrations have won the approval and commendation of both Jane Austen's House Museum at C...0 points

Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen (Shire Library) by Sarah-Jane Downing

The broader Regency period 1795-1820 stands alone more...0 points

The broader Regency period 1795-1820 stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history unlike anything that went before or after. It was the most naked period since Ancient Greece and before the 1960s, and for the first time England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became the toast of Paris. With the ancient regime deposed, court dress became secondary and the season by season flux of fashion as we know it came into being, aided and abetted by the proliferation of n...0 points

Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

   At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world more...0 points

   At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English-but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her.  Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer.    While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was n...0 points

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders by Josephine Ross, Henrietta Webb

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, more...0 points

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for "literary comment," Jane loved everything about it, except its utter disregard for the manners of the day. The resulting and tender correspondence between the two serves as the foundation for this instructional book. Etiquette and social behavior of...0 points

Tea with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson

Who would not want to sit down with Jane Austen and more...0 points

Who would not want to sit down with Jane Austen and join her in a cup of tea? Here for the first time is a book that shares the secrets of one of her favorite rituals. Tea figures prominently in Jane Austen's life and work. At the center of almost every social situation in her novels one finds tea. In Emma, does Miss Bates drink coffee? Of course not: 'No coffee, I thank you, for me-never take coffee.-A little tea if you please.' In Pride and Prejudice, what is one of the supreme honors Mr. Coll...0 points

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

Why are we so fascinated with Jane Austen's novels? more...0 points

Why are we so fascinated with Jane Austen's novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen's popularity. Classic and contemporary writers-novelists, essayists, journalists, scholars, and a filmmaker-discuss the tricks and treasures of Austen's novels, from her witty dialogue, to the arc and sweep of her story lines, to her prescriptions for life and love. Virginia Woolf examines Austen%u2...0 points

In the Garden with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson

Jane Austen took a keen interest in flower gardening more...0 points

Jane Austen took a keen interest in flower gardening and kitchen gardening alike. This book strolls through the sorts of gardens that Jane Austen would have known and visited: the gardens of the great estates, cottage gardens, gardens in town, and public gardens and parks. With lush photos, social history, excerpts from the novels, information on her life, and period drawings, In the Garden with Jane Austen brings Jane Austen's world and Georgian and Regency gardens to life. The book also i...0 points

The Holy Bible English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles

The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible is an ess more...1 point

The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible is an essentially literal Bible translation that combines word-for-word precision and accuracy with literary excellence, beauty, and depth of meaning. Formatted especially for Kindle with chapter-level navigation for each book.1 point

The Message: The Bible In Contemporary Language, Burgundy Bonded Leather by Eugene H. Peterson

Take the life-changing words of The Message wherev more...0 points

Take the life-changing words of The Message wherever you go in this convenient pocket-sized edition.0 points

Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible (NASB)

The New American Standard Bible has been widely ac more...0 points

The New American Standard Bible has been widely acclaimed as "the most literally accurate translation" from the original languages. Millions of people, students, scholars, pastors, missionaries, and laypersons alike, have trusted the NASB, learning from it and applying it to the challenges of their daily lives. Vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure have been carefully translated for greater understanding and smoother reading.0 points

Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV by International Bible Society, Zondervan

The NIV is a highly accurate and smooth-reading ve more...0 points

The NIV is a highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English. It has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation. The translation itself strikes a balance between a word-for-word and thought-for-thought philosophy, for the best representation of the intent of the original languages in today's language. The translators' mission was to "produce an accurate translation, suitable for public and private reading, teaching, preachin...0 points

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Black, Imitation Leather, Gift & Award (Bible Kjv) by Hendrickson

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