A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of the Year 1997.
David Nokes is a Reader in English Literature at King's College, London. He is the author of John Gay: A Profession of Friendship (1995), and Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (1985).
"[Nokes] strikes an extraordinary balance between detailed analysis and readability, and focuses, with a fiction writer's sensitivity, on the psychological drama in Austen's sedentary existence. The result is a suspenseful narrative, full of surprises."--Charles Wright, "Biography
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