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Jane Austen

A Life
by David Nokes (Author)
Paperback
Price: $36.95
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: Omit Brit Comm; Incl.US and Territ CA,PH
Pages: 592
ISBN: 9780520216068
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 8 black-and-white photos.
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About the Book

In this new biography of Jane Austen, David Nokes plays master sleuth and storyteller in presenting the great novelist ""not in the modest pose which her family determined for her, but rather, as she most frequently presented herself, as rebellious, satirical, and wild.""

About the Author

David Nokes is a Reader in English Literature at King's College, London. He is the author of John Gay: A Profession of Friendship (1995), and Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (1985).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgements
Introduction

PART I Family Secrets
Chapter 1    Family Secrets    

PART II Steventon
Chapter 2    Noisy and Wild    
Chapter 3    Growing Up    
Chapter 4    Partial, Prejudiced & Ignorant    
Chapter 5    Profligate and Shocking    
Chapter 6    I Say Nothing    

PART III Labyrinths
Chapter 7    Conspiracy    
Chapter 8    The Wrong Place    
Chapter 9    Abuse Everybody but Me    

PART IV Chawton
Chapter 10 One's Own Concerns    
Chapter II    Wild Beast    
Chapter 12 A Little Disguised    
Chapter 13 My Own Style    
Chapter 14    Pictures of Perfection    

Notes    
Index