by Claire Tomalin · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140251777
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«Jane Austen: A Life» is the biography of Jane Austen written by Claire Tomalin, published by Penguin in paperback (384 pages, in English).
The biography reconstructs Jane Austen's life from archives and local sources, and places it in the family and social context of the England of her time. Tomalin explores the writer's personality and the environment surrounding the creation of her novels, with a perspective that tempers the more sentimental image of the author and underscores her intelligence and sharpness.
The work focuses on Jane Austen (1775-1817); it was originally published in 1997 and the present Penguin edition is from 1998.
For readers interested in biographies of writers, in the history of English literature, and in the social context of the nineteenth century.
Claire Tomalin is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.
