Jane Austen

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This collection of critical essays on Jane Austen is a cross-section of modern opinion. It places her novels in a frame far wider that the provincial middle-class society she portrayed so well. Here, with a few exceptions, the novels of Jane Austen are seen as perceptive observations of the human condition, making adroit use of irony and wit as a means of moral and social judgement.