A truth universally acknowledged
Subtitle: 33 great writers on why we read Jane Austen
By: edited by Susannah Carson.
Contributors: Carson, Susannah.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781400068050
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Appreciation; Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Influence
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Harold Bloom; title: Introduction / Susannah Carson; title: Why we read Jane Austen : young persons in interesting situations / Susanna Clarke; title: The radiance of Jane Austen / Eudora Welty; title: Six reasons to read Jane Austen / Rebecca Mead; title: Jane Austen : the six novels / E.M. Forster; title: A life among the manuscripts : following in the steps of Dr. Chapman / Brian Southam; title: Reading Northanger Abbey / Susannah Carson; title: On Sense and Sensibility / Ian Watt; title: From "Why we read Jane Austen" / Lionel Trilling; title: Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice / W. Somerset Maugham; title: Force of love : Price and Prejudice by Jane Austen / Martin Amis; title: The nerds of Pride and Prejudice / Benjamin Nugent; title: Austen portrays a small world with humor and detachment / J.B. Priestley; title: Pride and Prejudice and the mysteries of life / Anna Quindlen; title: A note on Jane Austen / C.S. Lewis; title: Jane Austen and the good life / Louis Auchincloss; title: What became of Jane Austen? / Kingsley Amis; title: From "Jane Austen : Mansfield Park" / A.S. Byatt, Ignes Sodre; title: The modest art of altering life / Alain De Botton; title: Let others deal with misery / Fay Weldon; title: Fanny was right : Jane Austen as moral guide / James Collins; title: Why I like Jane Austen / Janet Todd; title: Why do we read Jane Austen? / John Wiltshire; title: The girls who don't say "whoo!" / Amy Heckerling; title: Reading and rereading Emma / David Lodge; title: From "Emma and the legend of Jane Austen" / Lionel Trilling; title: The perfections of Jane Austen / Eva Brann; title: From "The myth of limitation" / Donald Greene; title: Terrible Jane / Amy Bloom; title: From "Canonical memory in early Wordsworth and Jane Austen's Persuasion" / Harold Bloom; title: Some thoughts on the craft of Austen's Persuasion / Diane Johnson; title: Nothing but himself / Margot Livesey; title: Jane Austen at sixty / Virginia Woolf; title: Beautiful minds / Jay MacInerney; title: Contributor biographies