Letters to Alice
On First Reading Jane Austen
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Published:6th May '93
Should be back in stock very soon
Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own niece, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.
Wise and wonderfully funny * The Times *
Wise, sharp, informative . . . the advice about writing is sane and splendid . . . what I liked best about this book was its comic but reverent approach to true acts of imagination, in writer or reader * Guardian *
Full of pithy reflections on Jane Austen's life and the society of the day . . . full of unsuspected wisdom * Daily Telegraph *
She writes with conviction and wit * Times Literary Supplement *
Witty, convincing and spirited . . . both a fascinating study of Jane Austen and a novelist's enquiry into her own art * Books & Bookmen *
ISBN: 9780340589373
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 10mm
Weight: 134g
160 pages