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William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008 and is a widely published book critic. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Bookforum, and The American Scholar. He was nominated for National Magazine... show more

William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008 and is a widely published book critic. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Bookforum, and The American Scholar. He was nominated for National Magazine awards in 2008 and 2009 and the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010.
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William Deresiewicz's Books
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter - William Deresiewicz Perspecta 29 "Into the Fire": The Yale Architectural Journal - William Deresiewicz The Death of Friendship - William Deresiewicz Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life - William Deresiewicz What the Ivy League Won't Teach You - William Deresiewicz Excellent Sheep: Thinking for Yourself, Inventing Your Life, and Other Things the Ivy League Won't Teach You - William Deresiewicz Leadership: The West Point Lecture - William Deresiewicz
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A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter - William Deresiewicz
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life - William Deresiewicz
Excellent Sheep: Thinking for Yourself, Inventing Your Life, and Other Things the Ivy League Won't Teach You - William Deresiewicz
La vita secondo Jane Austen - William Deresiewicz, Claudio Carcano
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter - William Deresiewicz
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy, Jay Parini, William Deresiewicz
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter - William Deresiewicz
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter - William Deresiewicz
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Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 9 years ago
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First things first: I love Jane Austen's novels. They are clever, often biting in their social commentary, and give us a picture of everyday life during the Regency era.So, I was a little surprised when author William Deresiewicz started off the book by telling us how much he hated Jane Austen when ...
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Ecletic Reader
Ecletic Reader rated it 10 years ago
text Excellent Sheep: Thinking for Yourself, Inventing Your Life, and Other Things the Ivy League Won't Teach You
This book should be required reading during every freshman's first semester if not before. It brought up a number of issues I have complained about before, including rampant grade inflation and the destruction of learning in academic atmospheres.
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Veritatem Facientes In Caritate
Veritatem Facientes In Caritate rated it 11 years ago
text A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
This is a strange little book. It's part literary criticism, part biography, part autobiography, and part rambling on the nature of the various relationships we all find ourselves in. The author had a number of really good insights, but sometimes his modernist worldview got in the way and he could n...
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SilverPen
SilverPen rated it 11 years ago
text A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
I was wandering my library shelves when I found this book. What drew me wast the fact that it was about Jane Austen but was written by a man. I have never heard more disparaging comments about Jane Austen than from men who have never read her work. I took it home and was completely sucked in. In fa...
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the reader of books
the reader of books rated it 11 years ago
text A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
This made me want to reread every single Jane Austen novel, starting with Northanger Abbey. Henry Tilney 4 life.Also, this man has serious father issues.
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