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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A Brief Guide to Jane Austen Subtitle: Brief Histories Author: Charles Jennings Narrator: Nigel Carrington Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins Language: English Release date: 02-05-13 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians Publisher's Summary: Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the finest prose stylists in literature; the first truly modern writer, the godmother of chick lit. She is also the greatest enigma (next to Shakespeare) in English literature. Soldiers in the First World War sat in the trenches and read her novels for the civilising comforts they provided. Hard-nut literary critics such as F. R. Leavis lauded their austere complexity. World Book Day, 2007, found that Pride and Prejudice was the one book "the nation can't live without". In this witty,