Jane Austen

A Life

Claire Tomalin

$22.99

Paperback

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English

Penguin
10 August 2012

Biography; Biography: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

'Truly marvellous. I cannot think of a better life of Jane Austen than Claire Tomalin's'

Philip Hensher

Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us 'a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the page' (Val Hennesy). And along the way it gives us an 'authoratative, graceful,succinct account of a wide swathe of English society which brilliantly illuminates' the novelist (Victoria Glendinning).

By: Claire Tomalin
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9780241963272
ISBN 10: 0241963273
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 10 August 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claire Tomalin is a former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times . She has written seven highly acclaimed literary biographies, including Samuel Pepys, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and in 2011 the international bestseller Charles Dickens. She is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

Reviews for Jane Austen: A Life

As near perfect a Life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive -- Carmen Callil Daily Telegraph A book that radiates intelligence, wit and insight -- Michiko Kakutani New York Times A perfect biography: detailed, witty, warm -- Dirk Bogarde Sunday Telegraph Claire Tomalin is the finest and most disinterested of biographers, because in her pages she has given Jane Austen her liberty -- Hilary Mantel New York Review of Books