Back in March, Niall Patrick Walsh published a chat with Melodie Yashar Vice President of Building Design & Performance at the construction technologies company ICON. At one point he quips
Step into the elegant world of Jane Austen as we rank all her timeless novels! Unravel the wit, wisdom, and romance that have captivated readers for centuries.
The greatest of novelists, and the most perfect delineator of the human heart. Each of her six novels is a gem, witty and dry and tender. She was not th.
‘Lady Susan’: Novelist Shashi Deshpande on Jane Austen’s novel of the femme fatale (and her oeuvre)
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, and died on July 18, 1817. Jane Austen on a British £10 note. | Chris J Ratcliffe/ AFP
One needs to be either very brash, or a tremendous admirer of Jane Austen, to write about her. She has been so much written about by scholars and biographers that there seems to be nothing left to say. Every word she wrote has been picked up and scrutinised, its meaning probed, every action of hers, or even a lack of action, thoughtfully considered. For a woman whose life was, as has been universally agreed, uneventful, it is amazing how many books have been written about her.