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Date de parution
02 avril 2019
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1
EAN13
9780736976763
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Poids de l'ouvrage
5 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
02 avril 2019
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9780736976763
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
5 Mo
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE , OREGON
JANE AUSTEN S LITTLE BOOK ABOUT LIFE
Text copyright 2019 by Terry Glaspey
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-7675-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7369-7676-3 (eBook)
Cover and interior design by Dugan Design Group
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Contents
The Wisdom of Jane Austen
Good Impressions
Character
Friendship
Love Romance
The Good Life
Reading Writing
Faith
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The Wisdom of Jane Austen
T HERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS why so many readers love Jane Austen s novels. They tell such wonderful stories and are filled with characters that seem both a bit eccentric and, at the same time, so much like many of the people we ve met in the course of our lives and loves. We chuckle and laugh at their misadventures, and we might even grimace a bit at how often they reveal something about the person who stares back at us from our mirrors.
Austen s stories are simple at heart, and she is painting on a fairly limited canvas. She isn t Tolstoy giving us the grand sweep of an era and its struggles. Instead, Jane Austen writes novels about young ladies and their search for an appropriate life partner. All the drama is created by the question of who they will or will not choose to marry. Along the way there is also plenty of subtle social commentary about the times in which Austen lived and about the problem that money-or the lack thereof-created in the search for true love. And the delightful comedy that accompanies that drama makes her books doubly memorable.
Perhaps one of the biggest reasons that true Jane Austen fans can t keep themselves from wanting to revisit these novels regularly are the pearls of wisdom they contain. Words spoken by the narrator or one of the characters that ring true for the reader-insights about love, romance, virtue, decorum, grace, and a hundred more ordinary topics that she views with extraordinary insight and gentle good humor. In this small volume I ve gathered a collection of some of my favorite quotes from one of the most perceptive, witty, and generous writers who ever lived. Taken together, they provide us with some insight into Jane Austen s views about life. They are no substitute, however, for reading the novels, and I hope that perusing some of these wonderful quotes will cause you to clamber up out of your chair and pull one of her novels down off the shelf for a fresh look.
Terry Glaspey
Good Impressions
You are never sure of a good impression being durable.
Captain Wentworth in Persuasion
A simple style of dress is so infinitely preferable to finery. But I am quite in the minority, I believe; few people seem to value simplicity of dress-show and finery are everything.
Mrs. Elton in
