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Overview
Jane Austen is one of the most beloved and influential English novelists of all time. To those who love her, she is like the brightness of burnished silver something lovely, with sparkle, that makes our world more beautiful. Remarkably Jane: Notable Quotations on Jane Austen offers one hundred quotations on Austen and her writing from well-known authors, critics, intellectuals, and the actors and directors of film adaptations of her novels. The book features writers from J. K. Rowling, Ian McEwan, Anna Quindlen, and P. D. James to Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, C. S. Lewis, and Harper Lee. It also includes quotations from such favorite actors as Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson, James McAvoy, and Colin Firth. Insightful, pithy, and often illuminating, these quotations give you a glimpse into why Austen is considered by many to be the greatest writer in the English language second only to Shakespeare. A literary gift book, Remarkably Jane is for lovers of Jane Austen everywhere.Jennifer Adams is a selfacknowledged Janeite and bibliophile. She also loves old stone walls, lightning storms, letterpress printing, people who read, good design, road trips, cattails, dragonflies, beautifully wrapped packages, and the first snowfall. Jennifer works as a writer and editor in Salt Lake City, where she lives with her husband, Virgil Grillone.
She is a member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. Although popular scholarship tells her that her favorite Austen novel should be Persuasion, it is, in fact, Pride and Prejudice. Remarkably Jane is her seventh book.
Synopsis
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste. Virginia Woolf, 1925 It wasn t really me that everyone went crazy about it was the character [Fitzwilliam Darcy], who d been around for a couple of centuries. Colin Firth, 1997 Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twa in, 1898 For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature. Anna Quindlen, 1995
Mark David Bradshaw - Watermarkbooks.com
All these extracts possess enthusiasm and insight that will send any reader of Austen back into her novels to ponder anew at the skill, tenacity, and caliber of her writing. This book is a slice of rich cake, a fine friendship token, and a wonderful way to start a conversation.
Editorials
Watermarkbooks.com
All these extracts possess enthusiasm and insight that will send any reader of Austen back into her novels to ponder anew at the skill, tenacity, and caliber of her writing. This book is a slice of rich cake, a fine friendship token, and a wonderful way to start a conversation.— Mark David Bradshaw