A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780199276615 (0199276617)
ASIN: 0199276617
Publish date: 2004-10-15
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 230
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books
The title of this fantastic-- and entirely too short-- volume of Jane Austen criticism is derived from an oft quoted line recorded in a letter of Austen’s to one of her nephews, describing her writing as “the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces lit...