Penguin Lives Biographies

A Life

By: Carol Shields

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Paperback | 31 May 2005

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192 Pages

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18.42 x 13.34 x 1.91

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With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In "Jane Austen," Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. She reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics "Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice," and "Emma." With its fascinating insights into the writing process from an awarda winning novelist, Carol Shieldsas magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.

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[Austen] is a mystery, one that Shields explores with the patience and empathy of a devoted fan. ("The Atlanta Journal-Constitution") Shields provides an insider's view of the writer's world?which is what makes this biography so compelling. ("The Philadelphia Inquirer")

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