Jane Austen

Blurb

From back cover: Jane Austen's life spans an important period in English literary history. She stood between the 18th and 19th centuries, between what we might describe as the Age of Reason and the Age of Romanticism--the Age of Sense and the Age of Sensibility. Symmetry of style, a sense of logic and order characterize her realistic, ironically humorous, social comedies...