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Living with Jane Austen

Living with Jane Austen

Book 2025

"Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that 'we have all a better guide in ourselves ... than any other person can be.' Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen's own subtle novels. Written to coincide with Austen's 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how -- for over half a century -- Austen has inspired and challenged it...