90230-5 BookBox Foreign Language Covers the period 1704-1870

Covers the period 1704-1870

Marmontel [1723-1799] was a French historian and writer

A group of essays including the one where he famously states he is a Jane Austenite and reads her with "the mouth open and the mind closed

1959 reprint of the 1953 edition

and fans are given context as 200 years bring changes in literary criticism

90230-5 BookBox Foreign Language Covers the period 1704-1870R. W. Chapman's collection of Jane Austen's letters. Includes notes, maps, illustrations. Chapman's second edition adds a few letters and makes a few changes that he describes in the Preface, otherwise similar to the 1932 first edition. Then in 1959 it was reprinted with corrections. This copy from 1969 is the 3rd printing of the corrected second edition. The cover is red cloth with gilt title on spine. Cover has some damage. Hinges are loose.