Jane Austen's guide to modern dilemmas
By: Rebecca Smith
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Ivy Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewes, East Sussex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781782401643
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Philosophy; Life skills; Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Guide to modern dilemmas.
Description: Jane Austen is more of a celebrity and media queen now than she was in her lifetime. As a forensic observer of the social scene, with a mordant wit, ironic eye, and a sly way of puncturing pretension and seeing past the social facade, there is no doubt that if she had been with us today, she would have had her own column in an upmarket glossy a stylish, smartcookie agony aunt. Unfortunately, she did not get the opportunity, and so Jane Austens Guide to Modern Lifes Dilemmas is a crack at showing what it might have been like. This is a smart, sassy look at modern work, domestic, and romantic dilemmas, answered not by Jane Austen herself, but using her clear-eyed, witty, unsentimental view of life, love, and money with quotations from her books, letters, and unpublished writing as back-up. Treat it like a new and sensible best friend, to turn to whenever you are confronting lifes dilemmas (how can I stop saying yes to everything, what do I wear to a society wedding, is internet dating just for the desperate, etc).
Notes: Originally published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (page 220) and index.