| Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels |  | Author: Deirdre Le Faye
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0711222789
Dewey Decimal Number: 820
EAN: 9780711222786
ASIN: 0711222789
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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Product Description
An in-depth look at Jane Austen's life and times that brings to life the world of her novels.
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 It gave wonderful background to her novels November 29, 2009
Mr. A. D. Savill (hampshire england)
This was very broad and gave me a good and useful background to Jane Austen and her time,short of a detailed biography
Interesting February 8, 2009
K. Swain (Yorkshire, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Interesting book which gives an insight to the time of Jane Austen putting her books in context. Worth a read for Austen fans!
 A pleasure more when reading Jane Austen July 25, 2007
S. Unmack Larsen (Denmark)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
One of the pleasures of reading Jane Austen is trying to figure out what is left unsaid and unexplained. Also Tempora and Mores have changed, and the reactions and behaviour of the heroines can be rather odd at times, seen at a distance of 200 years and from across the North Sea.
Ever read Icelandic sagas? The sort in which Egil Egilsson's wife has left him - telling everyone in detail as to why - and throughout the next winter "people often discussed the matter". I bet they did!
And Egil too "thought about it, and he was not pleased". I bet he wasn't. Considering the mayhem that followed come next summer.
The joy is in imagining what is being said and thought, and why.
This pretty, well-illustrated book is a fine companion for imagining. We are explained the ins and outs of living in a pre-modern genteel society, the social graces, how to behave and almost more important: how not to behave. The characters in the novels by Jane Austen are by their very surroundings limited in what they can think, in what they can do. We must not forget the horizon was much lower then, and everyday living conditions and behaviour very different to ours. Trying to enter the spirit of the novels, so to speak, I find that Le Fayes book has helped me enormously.
brilliant presentation of Jane Austens world May 7, 2006
Persephone (Athens/sydney)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Le Faye has written an exceptional book which truly sets the reader in the time period Austen was writing.What impressed me most was the very readable style it has been written in with close attention to all details mentioned in her novels truly assisting the reader to have a feel of what was going on in England socially and economically aswell as highlighting world affairs at the time.
A great companion to add depth in ones appreciation of Jane Austen novels as well as detailed explanations to social life and nuiances in Regency England.
Jane Austen's World brought to life January 18, 2005
Mrs. D. J. Smith (Luton, England)
51 out of 52 found this review helpful
This is without a doubt one of the best Jane Austen related books. Le Faye starts with a concise biography of Jane Austen, to help readers put her life into some sort of historical context. The second part of the book deals with all sorts of Life & Times issues - carriages, clothing, occupations, architecture, coinage, filigree.... and of course she explains that Gowlands Lotion, so heartily recommended by Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion, was actually a sort of chemical peel!The third part of the book looks at each of the novels in turn, and includes the fragments The Watsons and Sandition. Le Faye gives a synopsis of the plot of each novel and along the way picks out things for us that would have needed no explanation to contemporary readers, but may now need some enlargement. For example in the Sense & Sensibility chapter she tells us about the places in London where the characters live or lodge, and what this says about them and their status. On top of all this, the book is beautifully illustrated with period county maps, contemporary portraits that match Austen's character descriptions and of course illustrations of all the Life & Times elements discussed - filigree work, fashion plates, coinage examples, etc. In a word: Excellent!
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