num_pages: 255
description: Before Jane Austen William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emmaand everything changed. In this unique and lyrical book Deresiewicz weaves the misadventures of Austens characters with his own youthful follies demonstrating the power of the great novelists teachingsand how for Austen growing up and making mistakes are one and the same. Honest erudite and deeply moving A Jane Austen Education is the story of one mans discovery of the world outside himself.
language: English
title: A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
publisher: Penguin Press