num_pages: 592
description: 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."
language: English
title: Jane Austen: A Life
titlecomplete: Jane Austen: A Life
genres: History, Biography, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 229
publisher: University of California Press