A truth universally acknowledged : 33 great writers on why we read Jane Austen

9780812980011

xx, 295 pages ; 21 cm

Truth universally acknowledged : thirty three great writers on why we read Jane Austen

Includes bibliographical references

Why we read Jane Austen : young persons in interesting situations / Susanna Clarke
The radiance of Jane Austen / Eudora Welty
Six reasons to read Jane Austen / Rebecca Mead
Jane Austen : the six novels / E. M. Forster
A life among the manuscripts : following in the steps of Dr. Chapman / Brian Southam
Reading Northanger Abbey / Susannah Carson
On Sense and Sensibility / Ian Watt
From "Why we read Jane Austen" / Lionel Trilling
Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice / W. Somerset Maugham
Force of love : Price and Prejudice by Jane Austen / Martin Amis
The nerds of Pride and Prejudice / Benjamin Nugent
Austen portrays a small world with humor and detachment / J. B. Priestley
Pride and Prejudice and the mysteries of life / Anna Quindlen
A note on Jane Austen / C. S. Lewis
Jane Austen and the good life / Louis Auchincloss
What became of Jane Austen? / Kingsley Amis
from "Jane Austen : Mansfield Park" / A. S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre
The modest art of altering life / Alain De Botton
Let others deal with misery / Fay Weldon
Fanny was right : Jane Austen as moral guide / James Collins
Why I like Jane Austen / Janet Todd
Why do we read Jane Austen? / John Wiltshire
The girls who don't say "whoo!" / Amy Heckerling
Reading and rereading Emma / David Lodge
from "Emma and the legend of Jane Austen" / Lionel Trilling
The perfections of Jane Austen / Eva Brann
from "The myth of limitation" / Donald Greene
Terrible Jane / Amy Bloom
Some thoughts on the craft of Austen's Persuasion / Diane Johnson
Nothing but himself / Margot Livesey
Jane Austen at sixty / Virginia Woolf
Beautiful minds / Jay MacInerney

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Bloom, Harold, writer of foreword
Carson, Susannah, editor