London: Penguin, 2000. Revised. Paperback. Near Fine. Hailed as possibly the finest biography of Austen ever written when first published in 1997, this is, nevertheless, a revised and updated edition. One reviewer said of the original work, "As near perfect a Life of Jane Austen as we are ever likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive. Tomalin presents Austen as remarkably clever; sensitive, but unsentimental; tough, yet observant; guarded; and a woman with the devil of a genius in her." Contains 362 pages, 20 x 13cm, with 16 pages of b&w illustrations, plus two appendices; extensive notes; a short bibliography; concise family tree; and index. Illustrated card covers showing very light creasing to spine, otherwise in very good condition. Internally, shows light pencil underlinings and notes within first couple of chapters, otherwise Near Fine: clean and bright in excellent bindings. Apart from noted faults, looks, feels and smells like new.

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Claire Tomalin is the author of several prize-winning biographies--of Mary Wollstonecraft; Katherine Mansfield; Dickens's secret mistress, Nelly Ternan; and Dora Jordan, the actress who for twenty years was companion to the future William IV. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and The Sunday Times . Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.

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Bookseller: William Robertson (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 02059
Title: Jane Austen : A Life
Author: Tomalin, Claire
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Revised
ISBN 10: 0140296905
ISBN 13: 9780140296907
Publisher: Penguin
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: Austen, Biography, Tomalin, Romantic Fiction, Romance, Literature.
Bookseller catalogs: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Literary;

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