β Scribed by Sarah Tytler
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In one volume Sarah Tytler presents the most characteristic of Jane Austenβs novels, together with her life. The tales and the life are calculated to reflect on each other, and the arrangement of the tales βselected by the author as Austen wrote them, not as they happened to be publishedβ allows the growth of Austenβs mind and taste to be recognised. The author touches on these great English novels in such a way as to make them readily accessible to all. She points out the great changes in social standards, customs and fashions that have occurred since Jane Austen wrote, but concludes that the human nature in her books remains the same as human nature in every generation.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
First published in 1939, this remains a classic study of Jane Austen's genius in the art of fiction. The opening section, "Biography", provides an account of Jane Austen's life and development as a writer, from her earliest childhood pieces to the final, unfinished novel, "Sanditon", begun early in
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