BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Jane Austen: A Life

    (By Claire Tomalin)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 26 MB (26,085 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 654 times
    Last checked 13 Hour ago!
    Author Claire Tomalin
    “Book Descriptions: At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her.  Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer. 

    While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events," Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval.  Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village. ”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Larada Horner-Miller

    Book 1

    Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

    ★★★★★

    Claudia Clark

    Book 1

    Jane Austen at Home

    ★★★★★

    Lucy Worsley

    Book 1

    Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon

    ★★★★★

    Jane Austen

    Book 1

    The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

    ★★★★★

    Paula Byrne

    Book 1

    The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood

    ★★★★★

    Paula Byrne

    Book 1

    Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

    ★★★★★

    Claire Harman

    Book 1

    Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space

    ★★★★★

    Lynn Sherr

    Book 1

    What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

    ★★★★★

    John Mullan

    Book 1

    Mansfield Park

    ★★★★★

    Jane Austen

    Book 1

    John Quincy Adams

    ★★★★★

    Harlow Giles Unger

    Book 1

    Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

    ★★★★★

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Book 1

    Miss Austen

    ★★★★★

    Gill Hornby

    Book 1

    Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius

    ★★★★★

    Marc J. Seifer

    Book 1

    Woodrow Wilson: A Biography

    ★★★★★

    John Milton Cooper Jr.