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Published
Bloomsbury, January 2013
ISBN
9781408831694
Format
Softcover, 352 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm

What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

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And which important Austen characters never speak?

In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's novels, John Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of Austen's fiction. Inspired by an enthusiastic reader's curiosity, based on a lifetime's study and written with flair and insight, What Matters in Jane Austen? uncovers the hidden truth about an extraordinary fictional world.

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