The Jane Austen Companion to Life

by Sourcebooks, Inc.

"For Reading Jane Austen, to those who love her, is like mounting with wings as we cannot tire."
-G.B. Stern Original watercolor illustrations from Jane Austen's novels accompany a splendid array of quotes in this companion book about the real life, memorable characters, and charming wit of Jane Austen. A great gift for any fan-new or lifelong-of this most beloved author.

Genres: Jane Austen, Classics

61 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2010

About the author

Sourcebooks, Inc. is an independent book publisher outside of Chicago that publishes fiction, romance, children's books, college guides, history, business books, etc.

Reviews

[Alípio Vieira Firmino]

Ao ler este livro fiquei com vontade de conhecer melhor o trabalho de Jane Austen, tem pensamentos muito bonitos. :-)

[Andy Hickman]

“The Jane Austen Companion to Life” by Sourcebooks, Inc. (Creator)

Delightful quotes and matching antique illustrations:

“"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." – Mr. Darcy in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (p25)

“Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.” – from ‘Emma’ (p33)

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." Henry Tilney in ‘Northanger Abbey’. (p59)

[Andrea]

La sabiduría de Jane Austen es abrumadora. Algunas de mis quotes favoritas: “One man’s way may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best”. “What is right to be done cannot be done too soon”. “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be”.

[Roberta Frontini (Blogue FLAMES)]

Adoro Jane Austen. É um livro para ler e reler, com frases muito interessantes, no entanto, achei que a organização não esta muito bem definida. É também um livro que poderia ser maior... soube-me a pouco...

[Elizzy B]

Este libro me lo regaló mi amiga Toñi por uno de nuestros encuentros y se lo agradezco mucho.
Es una colección de citas de las novelas de Austen y también de alguna de sus cartas a su sobrina Fanny y a su hermana Cassandra.
Contiene reproducciones a color de las ilustraciones de Charles Edmund Brock y su hermano Henry Matthew, hechas a finales del XIX y principios del XX, con detalles, que acompañan los textos.
Frases sobre la naturaleza humana, la felicidad, el hogar o los libros.
Un regalo precioso para cualquier austenita.

[Heather]

The Jane Austen Companion to Life is a darling little book! Perfectly giftable, the small book contains quotes from various Jane Austen works. Accompanying each quote is a color illustration from the 1800's. Absolutely love this book!

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[Laura DeGrave]

A decorative tabletop or gift book made for Jane Austen fans.
Sixty-one pages filled with illustrations and quotes from Jane's six novels.
Meant to be used as thought-provoking sayings toward life reflections.

[Peggy Bodner]

A fun light read. The illustrations are delightful.

[Kris]

Cute gift book, but that's about it.

[林]

it's a lovely book. not the novel kind but... oddly, like a tumblr? because of the illustrations & quotes. reading this at this point in my life, where i'm going away from home & family for a few months, feels nice. so much feels, haha.

[Brenda]

LOVE this and it has illustrations from her books that were republished in the early 1900s. They are exquisite!

[Susan Jones]

Be forewarned--This isn't a book book, but rather a small collection of a picture on page, and a single quote on the facing page. Only 61 pages. So it was nice, but not at all what I was expecting.

[Kate]

Cute little book of Austen quotes.

[Shelleyd]

Great! Not as good as on the one on love.

[Kim]

Some great quotes here and the pictures are very well done. I liked it very much indeed.

[Joy (Cheery♡Reads)]

I absolutely loveeee this book. The illustrations are so lovely.

[Jeana]

Cute little table book that has pretty illustrations and quotes from Austen's novels and letters. Read over breakfast...

[Marisa]

3.5. Lovely illustrations, nice quotes but missing some other favorites.