Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever writt...(展开全部)

Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever writt...(展开全部)

Hidden in an old chest in her brother's attic, Jane Austen's memoirs are uncovered after hundreds of years, bricked up behind an old wall. Written shortly before her death, one volume was preserved immaculately, and its contents both shocked and thrilled readers. Detailing a love affair the author was apparently determined to keep secret, Jane's memoir offers readers untold ins...(展开全部)

Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice a...(展开全部)

Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice a...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in the conduct of her own life, unfai...(展开全部)

The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the Austen family and their Hampshire neighbours, and of Jane's progress through a difficult childhood, an unhappy love affair, her experie...(展开全部)

黛博拉·霍普金森 著 著名儿童文学作家。曾两度获得美国童书作家与插画家协会金风筝奖。国内已出版的作品有《你是我最喜欢的老师》《查尔斯·狄更斯——追逐梦想的男孩》《谁是达尔文》等。 黛博拉在六年级时第一次读到了简·奥斯丁的《傲慢与偏见》，后来她每年都至少重读一遍。她最喜欢的奥斯丁作品改编电影的场景，是受人喜爱的已故演员艾伦·瑞克曼在《理智与情感》中将硬币抛向空中那一幕。在不阅读奥斯丁作品、不看她的作品改编电影，以及不想着去英国旅游的时候，黛博拉会在自己位于俄勒冈州波特兰附近的家中创作绘本、青少年小说以及非虚构文学作品。 冷沁 绘 童书插画家、设计师。出生于上海，目前与她的丈夫和儿子在加拿大多伦多生活。 冷沁小时候便在许多绘画作品中间长大，画家父亲对她产生了很大的影响。她毕业于梅尔·霍普海姆电影学院，凭借自己的动画短片和插画作品屡获大奖。曾入围加拿大总督...(展开全部)

What is the world-historical importance of Jane Austen? An old maid writes with the detachment of a god. Here, the stigmatized condition of a spinster; there, a writer's unequalled display of absolute, impersonal authority. In between, the secret work of Austen's style: to keep at bay the social doom that would follow if she ever wrote as the person she is. For no Jane Austen c...(展开全部)

When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbsaeleven years old and abandoned by her erratic motheragoes looking for her lost father. She crosses paths with Cornelia while meeting with ...(展开全部)