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Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen / Fay Weldon.
LIBRA - Special PR6073.E374 L47 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weldon, Fay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Appreciation--Fiction.
- Austen, Jane.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Women--Books and reading--Fiction.
- Women.
- Literature--Appreciation--Fiction.
- Literature.
- Literature--Appreciation.
- Women--Books and reading.
- Books and reading--Fiction.
- Books and reading.
- Art appreciation.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 155 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Second Carroll and Graf edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1999.
- Summary:
- Inspired by an exchange of letters between the novelist Jane Austen and a niece, herself a literary aspirant, this epistolary novel chronicle the responses to young Alice, a college student with black and green hair who sees little point in the study of literature (she's declared Jane Austen petty, irrelevant, and boring), by her abashed but forbearing Aunt Fay. Sometimes with irony, often with passion, Aunt Fay attempt to introduce her recalcitrant niece to the many enchantments that lie in what she calls the City of Invention: that place where the reader and writer through the magic of literature meet.
- Contents:
- Letter 1 The City of Invention 11
- Letter 2 A terrible time to be alive 28
- Letter 3 A training in docility 43
- Letter 4 The mantle of the Muse 61
- Letter 5 Pity the poor writer 72
- Letter 6 Letter to a sister 87
- Letter 7 Emma lives! 90
- Letter 8 'Oh! It's only a novel!' 102
- Letter 9 'I never read much' 107
- Letter 10 'Are you sure they are all horrid?' 116
- Letter 11 'An annuity is a serious business' 125
- Letter 12 Let others deal with misery 133
- Letter 13 'You have delighted us long enough' 137
- Letter 14 A gently lingering illness 148
- Letter 15 A publisher's offer 152
- Letter 16 The marvel of creation 154.
- ISBN:
- 0786706880
- 9780786706884
- OCLC:
- 42881045
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