Dominique Enright

The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen

Price: £7.99

Select a format:

Buy the book:

Details

Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 13/02/2025

ISBN: 9781789297560

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Humour

Binding: Hardback

Size: 178 x 111 mm

Extent: 160 pages

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

Trade

Effortlessly manage bulk orders with us, simply enquire for pricing and detailed information. Our team is ready to ensure a smooth process for you.

Enquire now

Summary:

Featuring a host of quotations displaying Austen’s sharp – and often wicked – social observation and satirical wit, this funny and wise book will strike a chord with fans of the author as well as readers new to her writing.

In Celebration of Jane Austen, on the 250th anniversary of her birth. Lauded for her eloquence, observation and wry humour, Jane Austen was a novelist who was highly regarded and greatly celebrated in her own time. However, her appeal is as great as ever, and her insights remain as fresh and relevant today as when they were first published.

Beautifully packaged and published to tie in with the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen‘s birth, this delightful and absorbing collection of thematic extracts from her beloved novels, such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion, as well as her letters, compiles the author’s sharpest, most profound and most amusing observations on human nature, money, marriage, life and society, and more. The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen is a charming tribute to a writer whose work will resonate for centuries to come.

Sales points:

  • An absorbing collection of Jane Austen’s sharpest, most profound and most amusing observations.

  • Featuring wry insights on human nature, money, marriage, life and society, taken from her novels and from her highly entertaining letters.

  • Accessible, thematically organized and elegantly decorated, this wonderful volume will delight all Austen devotees.

  • 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, and there is lots of activity planned; most notably an adaptation of Persuasion, written by Dolly Alderton and set to air on Netflix.

About the Author:

Dominique Enright

Dominique Enright is a freelance writer and editor. She has a degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. Her previous work for Michael O'Mara Books includes The Wicked Wit of William Shakespeare and she is also the compiler and editor of selections from the verse of Burns, Keats, Kipling and Wordsworth. She lives in London with her husband; they have three grown-up children.