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Free Download Helen Lefroy, "Jane Austen: Essential Biographies"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0752453181 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 1.6 mb
Jane Austen’s reputation rests on the six novels she wrote in her short life – enduringly popular novels which have become part of the fabric of English life, and which have reached new audiences through recent dramatisations on screen and stage. This book, which draws on her letters, describes Jane’s life in the vicarage at Steventon and later at Bath and Chawton, and her relationships with family and friends – especially her beloved sister, Cassandra, and the engaging Tom Lefroy (who it was rumoured was the love of her life). It also describes the parties and balls in country houses and assembly rooms which she attended and the detail of nineteenth-century life which she so sharply observed and which provided the background to her novels. This book is a pleasure for anyone wanting to understand the life of one of our great novelists.

Free Download Rebecca Smith, "The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-loved Novelist"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1408866056, 1632865882 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 1.3 mb
Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in the English literary canon. Her novels changed the landscape of fiction forever, and her writing remains as fresh, entertaining and witty as the day her books were first published. Now, with this illuminating and entertaining new book, you can learn Jane Austen’s methods, tips and tricks – and how to live well as a writer. Filled with useful exercises, beautiful illustrations and illuminating quotations from the great author’s novels and letters, The Jane Austen Writers’ Club explores the techniques of Descriptionting and characterisation, through to dialogue and suspense. Whether you’re a creative writing enthusiast looking to publish your first novel, a teacher searching for further inspiration for students, or an Austen fan looking for insight into her daily rituals, this is an essential companion, guaranteed to satisfy, inform and delight all. ‘Winning and beguiling …Smith shares Jane Austen’s clarity and gentle irony’ Independent

Free Download May Witwit, "Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship"
English | 2010 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0141038535, 1408487136 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
A London mom and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they’re the firmest of friends. . . Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit is a touching and poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship. Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? May’s a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She’s also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi’ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars, and battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Bee, on the other hand, is a London mom of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats, and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion, and age. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad is the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams, and fears. And, between the grenades, the gossip, the jokes, and the secrets, they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad. . .

Free Download A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist by Juliette Wells
English | October 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1350365513, 1350365505 | True EPUB | 268 pages | 4.7 MB
Completing Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came to be viewed as the world’s greatest novelist. Wells shows that Austen’s global reputation was established not by British scholars, as is commonly believed, but by visionary American writers and collectors, working largely outside academia.

Free Download Eric Parisot, "Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium "
English | ISBN: 3031492854 | 2024 | 136 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 2 MB
Jane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005) and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009). It asks how the shifting cultural values of Austen and the vampire have aligned, and what their connection might mean for their respective contemporary legacies. It also makes a case for reading "low brow" Austen fanfic attentively, as a way to gain meaningful insight directly from Austen fans into the tensions and anxieties surrounding contemporary notions of love, sex, femininity, and Austen’s modern currency. Offering close readings of Austen’s vampire-slaying heroines, vampiric retellings of Pride and Prejudice, and the transformation of Austen herself into a vampire, this book reveals Austen-vampire mashups as messy, complex entanglements that creatively and self-reflexively interrogate modern fantasies of vampire romance. By its unique intersection of Jane Austen with the vampire, the Gothic, fan culture and popular romance,

Free Download Thomas Nelson, "A Jane Austen Devotional (Devotional Classics Series)"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1400319536 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 1.1 mb
A beautiful devotional, brimming with the wit and wisdom of Jane Austen and the timeless truths of Scripture.

Free Download Jane Austen, Early and Late by Freya Johnston
English | November 9, 2021 | ISBN: 0691198004 | 296 pages | MOBI | 17 Mb
A reexamination of Austen’s unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels―and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" work

Free Download The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Rachel Feder
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1683693574 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 3.76 MB
What if we’ve been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A literary scholar offers a funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually terrifying.

Free Download Julia Golding, "Jane Austen Investigates: The Abbey Mystery"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1782643346 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.4 mb
‘Julia Golding’s Jane Austen Investigates offers a gripping detective story with an abundance of Easter eggs for Austen fans… This is a delightful riff on the wit and irony of Austen’s works; of her wonderful juvenilia, especially.’ David Taylor, Associate Professor, Faculty of English, University of Oxford

Free Download The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCSVQ1V8 | 2023 | 6 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 354 MB
Author: Rachel Feder
Narrator: Deanna Anthony
What if we’ve been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying. Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a book for anyone who loves thinking deeply about literature and culture-whether they love Jane Austen or not. You already know Mr. Darcy-at least you think you do! The brooding, rude, standoffish romantic hero of Pride and Prejudice, Darcy initially insults and ignores the witty heroine but eventually succumbs to her charms. It’s a classic enemies-to-lovers Description and one that has profoundly influenced our cultural ideas about courtship. But what if this classic isn’t just a grand romance but a horror novel about how scary love and marriage can be for women? In The Darcy Myth, literature scholar Rachel Feder unpacks Austen’s Gothic influences and how they have led us to a romantic ideal that is halfway to being a monster story. Why is our culture so obsessed with cruel, indifferent romantic heroes, and sometimes heroines? How much of that is Darcy’s fault? And, now that we know, what do we do about it?