The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen is an absorbing collection of Jane Austen's sharpest, most profound and amusing observations -- on human nature, money, marriage, life and society -- taken from her novels and also from her extremely entertaining letters. Easy to dip in to and highly quotable, this beautifully decorated volume will delight all Austen devotees, as well as readers less familiar with her life and work.
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"While I’m not a die-hard Jane Austen fan, I’m quickly becoming one with this book and it's making me more interested in her novels just by reading it." —The Write Stuff
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AS A CHILD and young woman Jane Austen wrote as avidly as she read - satirical sketches and burlesques, comic fragments, 'novels' often in epistolary form, light verse ... most of it poking fun at the more absurd conventions of her time, whether social or literary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Fanny Knight, Anna Lefroy, Edward Austen-Leigh, Anna Austen, Northanger Abbey, Sir Edward, James Stanier Clarke, Caroline Austen, First Impressions, Martha Lloyd, Sir Walter Elliot New!
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AS A CHILD and young woman Jane Austen wrote as avidly as she read - satirical sketches and burlesques, comic fragments, 'novels' often in epistolary form, light verse ... most of it poking fun at the more absurd conventions of her time, whether social or literary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Fanny Knight, Anna Lefroy, Edward Austen-Leigh, Anna Austen, Northanger Abbey, Sir Edward, James Stanier Clarke, Caroline Austen, First Impressions, Martha Lloyd, Sir Walter Elliot New!
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- Mansfield Park (Signet Classics) by Jane Austen on 9 pages
- Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen on 8 pages
- Jane Austen (Sutton Pocket Biographies) by Helen Lefroy on 6 pages
- Mansfield Park (Classic Library) by Jame Austen on 5 pages
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen on 5 pages
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- The Wicked Wit of Women (The Wicked Wit of series) by Dominique Enright in Front Matter
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