John Sutherland (former Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern Englis, Deirdre Le Faye (Freelance author and editor)

So You Think You Know Jane Austen?

A Literary Quizbook

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ace literary detective John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre Le Faye challenge the reader to discover just how well you really know your favourite author. Starting with easy, factual questions the quiz progresses to find out how much you know by deduction and hypothesis- what really motivates the characters, and what is going on underneath the surface? Hugely entertaining as well as full of fascinating insights, So You Think You Know Jane Austen?guarantees you will know her much better after reading it. The answers are at the back!

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 184g
• ISBN-13: 9780199538997
• ISBN-10: 0199538999
• Artikelnr.: 25440695

Autorenporträt

John Sutherland has recently retired as Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has edited numerous editions for OWC, including novels by Thackeray, Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Trollope and most recently Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. He is the author of Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?, Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet?,and (with Cedric Watts) Henry V, War Criminal?. His most recent book is a biography of Stephen Spender. Deirdre Le Faye is a renowned Austen expert, editor ofJane Austen's Letters (OUP, 1995). She is also the author of The Jane Austen Cookbook (1995), Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels (2002), and Jane Austen: A Family Record (1989, new edtion 2003).