Author: Deresiewicz, William

Price: $24.00

Category:Arts & Literature Biographies
Publication Date:2012-04-24T00:00:01Z
Pages:288
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0143121251
ISBN:13:9780143121251
Before Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emma—and everything changed. In this unique and lyrical book, Deresiewicz weaves the misadventures of Austen’s characters with his own youthful follies, demonstrating the power of the great novelist’s teachings—and how, for Austen, growing up and making mistakes are one and the same. Honest, erudite, and deeply moving, A Jane Austen Education is the story of one man’s discovery of the world outside himself.