Jane Austen: Christian Encounters Series

Jane Austen is now what she never was in life, and what she would have been horrified to become-a literary celebrity.

Austen's novels achieved a timelessness that makes them perennially appealing. Kipling and Churchill found solace in her writings during times of war and illness. Mark Twain had a love/hate relationship with her work. And then, there's our celebrity culture: the television hit Pride and Prejudice, the award-winning 1995 film Sense and Sensibility, and all the remakes and preq...