This entertaining book brings together 33 famous writers who look beneath the bonnets and ballgowns to discover why, after 200 years, we still can’t put Jane Austen’s novels down.
Reflecting on many of Austen's classics, including Pride And Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park and Persuasion, the contributors include:
• Virginia Woolf
• C.S. Lewis
• Alain De Botton
• Martin Amis
• A.S. Byatt
• Fay Weldon
• Kingsley Amis
• Susanna Clarke
• Jay McInerny
• Amy Heckerling, director of the Austen-inspired film Clueless.
• and many others.
Whether discussing Austen's gift for comedy or why men and women respond to her differently, A Truth Universally Acknowledged is a thoroughly entertaining read.