Cover art for What Matters in Jane Austen?
Published
Bloomsbury, January 2013
ISBN
9781408831694
Format
Softcover, 352 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm

What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by

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What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage?

What do the characters call each other, and why?

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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