The daily Jane Austen : a year of quotes / edited and with a foreword by Devoney Looser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, Author.

Contributor:

Looser, Devoney, 1967- editor.

Series:

A Year of Quotes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Quotations.

Austen, Jane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Summary:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably "able. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

Index of Sources

Note on the Text

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-65558-X

OCLC:

1124604508