Tag: Austen

Free Download Rachel Brownstein, "Why Jane Austen?"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0231153910, 0231153902 | PDF | pages: 310 | 22.9 mb
From the first publication of Pride and Prejudice to recent film versions of her life and work, Jane Austen has continued to provoke controversy and inspire fantasies of peculiar intimacy. Whether celebrated for her realism, proto-feminism, or patrician gentility, imagined as a subversive or a political conservative, Austen generates passions shaped by the ideologies and trends of her readers’ time-and by her own memorable stories, characters, and elusive narrative cool.

Free Download A Reading of Jane Austen By Barbara Hardy
2000 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0485120321 | PDF | 10 MB
A Reading of Jane Austen (first published by Peter Owen in 1975) has established itself with critics and readers as an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on this author, full of fresh and stimulating perceptions. Central to the word is Bar

Free Download Zöe Wheddon, Jayne Entwistle (Narrator), "Jane Austen’s Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd"
English | ASIN: B0CS3V6DFJ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:24:00 | 267 MB
The book will take the form of a "recipe for friendship" as Martha Lloyd is best known for her housekeeping and recipe book.
All fans of Jane Austen everywhere believe themselves to be best friends with the beloved author and this book shines a light on what it meant to be exactly that. Jane Austen’s Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd offers a unique insight into Jane’s private inner circle. Through this heartwarming examination of an important and often overlooked person in Jane’s world, we uncover the life-changing force of their friendship.

Free Download Jane Austen’s life and writing career
Published 2/2024
Created by Dr. Fernanda Korovsky Moura
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 15 Lectures ( 6h 58m ) | Size: 4.44 GB

Free Download Helen Lefroy, "Jane Austen: Essential Biographies"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0752453181 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 1.6 mb
Jane Austen’s reputation rests on the six novels she wrote in her short life – enduringly popular novels which have become part of the fabric of English life, and which have reached new audiences through recent dramatisations on screen and stage. This book, which draws on her letters, describes Jane’s life in the vicarage at Steventon and later at Bath and Chawton, and her relationships with family and friends – especially her beloved sister, Cassandra, and the engaging Tom Lefroy (who it was rumoured was the love of her life). It also describes the parties and balls in country houses and assembly rooms which she attended and the detail of nineteenth-century life which she so sharply observed and which provided the background to her novels. This book is a pleasure for anyone wanting to understand the life of one of our great novelists.

Free Download Rebecca Smith, "The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-loved Novelist"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1408866056, 1632865882 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.3 mb
Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in the English literary canon. Her novels changed the landscape of fiction forever, and her writing remains as fresh, entertaining and witty as the day her books were first published. Now, with this illuminating and entertaining new book, you can learn Jane Austen’s methods, tips and tricks – and how to live well as a writer. Filled with useful exercises, beautiful illustrations and illuminating quotations from the great author’s novels and letters, The Jane Austen Writers’ Club explores the techniques of Descriptionting and characterisation, through to dialogue and suspense. Whether you’re a creative writing enthusiast looking to publish your first novel, a teacher searching for further inspiration for students, or an Austen fan looking for insight into her daily rituals, this is an essential companion, guaranteed to satisfy, inform and delight all. ‘Winning and beguiling …Smith shares Jane Austen’s clarity and gentle irony’ Independent

Free Download May Witwit, "Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship"
English | 2010 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0141038535, 1408487136 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
A London mom and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they’re the firmest of friends. . . Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit is a touching and poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship. Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? May’s a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She’s also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi’ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars, and battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Bee, on the other hand, is a London mom of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats, and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion, and age. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad is the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams, and fears. And, between the grenades, the gossip, the jokes, and the secrets, they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad. . .

Free Download A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist by Juliette Wells
English | October 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1350365513, 1350365505 | True EPUB | 268 pages | 4.7 MB
Completing Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen’s global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.

Free Download Eric Parisot, "Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium "
English | ISBN: 3031492854 | 2024 | 136 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 2 MB
Jane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005) and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009). It asks how the shifting cultural values of Austen and the vampire have aligned, and what their connection might mean for their respective contemporary legacies. It also makes a case for reading "low brow" Austen fanfic attentively, as a way to gain meaningful insight directly from Austen fans into the tensions and anxieties surrounding contemporary notions of love, sex, femininity, and Austen’s modern currency. Offering close readings of Austen’s vampire-slaying heroines, vampiric retellings of Pride and Prejudice, and the transformation of Austen herself into a vampire, this book reveals Austen-vampire mashups as messy, complex entanglements that creatively and self-reflexively interrogate modern fantasies of vampire romance. By its unique intersection of Jane Austen with the vampire, the Gothic, fan culture and popular romance,

Free Download Thomas Nelson, "A Jane Austen Devotional (Devotional Classics Series)"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1400319536 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.1 mb
A beautiful devotional, brimming with the wit and wisdom of Jane Austen and the timeless truths of Scripture.