Download or read book What Matters in Jane Austen? written by John Mullan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? What do the characters call each other, and why? And which important Austen characters never speak? In twenty short chapters, each of which answers a question prompted by Jane Austen's novels, John Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of Austen's fiction. Inspired by an enthusiastic reader's curiosity, based on a lifetime's study and written with flair and insight, What Matters in Jane Austen? uncovers the hidden truth about an extraordinary fictional world.