Volume 2,Issue 3
On Jane Austen and Her Work
Jane Austen lived a short life, wrote only six complete novels, two of which were published after her death. However, her six novels won her permanent honor. Today, we can still see the images in films and dramas that were created from her works. In these novels, the life of the gentry, landowners, and clergy at the end of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth centuries is shown in detail. All of Jane Austen’s works show a recognizable standard of values. Jane Austen’s interest revolved around people---their eccentricities, appearances and dialogues. From them, she created the characters that give her novels universal and lasting appeal, of course, in most cases, using her peculiar writing skill---irony.
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