15717 Eliot Includes discussion of the connection

Includes discussion of the connection between Austen's life and art

Green cloth with silver decorations

to follow up on the original that was published in 1947

Brown paper

15717 Eliot Includes discussion of the connectionAt pennies a copy, Austen's novels were some of the earliest mass marketed paperbacks. In the 19th century they were targeted to Britain's working class and were sold at train stations, traded for soap wrappers, and given as school prizes. This is the story of those paperbacks and other republications of Austen's novels told lovingly by a serious, scholarly collector who is an expert on book publishing as well as on Austen. Barchas shares the fun of