Jane Austen: The Life of a Literary Titan

'This delicious acorn of a book is as spare, elegant and to-the-point as the literary oak it describes.'– Emma Thompson

Jane Austen lived to just 41, never married, never had children, lived all her life in the south of England and rarely strayed far from the genteel and orthodox social circle into which she was born. She completed only six novels and achieved little fame in her lifetime. Yet, over 200 years after her death, she remains one of our most revered writers, and one of the most re...