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Of all Jane Austen's books PRIDE AND PREJUDICE has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove "rather too light and bright, and...

Jane Austen - A Biography written by Elizabeth Jenkins performed by Teresa Gallagher on Audio CD (Abridged)

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ISBN: 9789626342015
Genre - Main: Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific: Biography
Duration: 150 mins
Length: Abridged
Author: Elizabeth Jenkins
Performer 1: Teresa Gallagher

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This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one of the greatest English novelists. It illustrates not only the character and opinions of an unusually perceptive and gifted woman, but also the social life amonst the county gentry of Georgian England.

Outside her writing, Jane Austen's main interest was her large and affectionate family and their circle of friends. This is the world she so brilliantly depicted in her novels, and Elizabeth Jenkins shows how often the settings and characters mirrored the writer's own life in Hampshire.

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