Literature: history & criticism
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Jane Austen
£20.00Jane Austen
This book traces the author’s life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work, and the places where she lived, worked and set her novels.
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Jane Austen At Home
£10.99Jane Austen At Home
This telling of the story of Jane’s life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure and a prison.
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Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister
£15.99Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister
A revealing account of a naval officer’s young wife, her life during the Napoleonic Wars, and her influence on Jane Austen’s fiction.£15.99 -
The Dark Powers of Tolkien
£12.99The Dark Powers of Tolkien
If you love ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Hobbit’ or ‘The Silmarillion’ (or knows someone who does) then this is the perfect companion to unearthing the history, influences and genius behind each title, and the dark powers they contain.
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The Genius of Jane Austen
£9.99The Genius of Jane Austen
A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time.
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What Matters in Jane Austen?
£9.99What Matters in Jane Austen?
From ‘Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?’ to ‘Which important Austen characters never speak?’ the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden truths about Jane Austen’s fictional world
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