Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own neice, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her...
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Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own neice, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780340589373 (034058937X)
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Sceptre
Pages no: 150
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Academic,
School,
Language,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Art,
Contemporary
1.5 stars My issues with this book are many in number. In fact I have heard it said (although I'm not sure if true) that Fay Weldon did not actually intend for this book to get published. If that is the case, I can certainly see why. I usually enjoy epistolary novels however, with Letters to...
Ah. Compulsory school reading. Isn't it delightful?!I think it a slight flaw of the school system to make books that are as boring as hell compulsory (actually Hell would probably be a bit more exciting, all fiery and whatnot). Why? Do these people like torturing kids? Do they get a perverse pleasur...
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