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  • Letters to Alice

  • On First Reading Jane Austen
  • By: Fay Weldon
  • Narrated by: Lesley Parkin
  • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Letters to Alice

By: Fay Weldon
Narrated by: Lesley Parkin
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Publisher's summary

Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern writer responds to her niece's complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant. By turns passionate and ironic, "Aunt Fay" makes Alice think - not only about books and literature, but also life and culture.

©1984 Fay Weldon (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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Critic reviews

"Wise, sharp, informative.... Shrewd and funny." (A. S. Byatt, Times Literary Supplement)
"A study of a writer (and reader) thinking aloud about art and civilization.... It should be required reading, a prerequisite for students of literature." (Hilma Wolitzer, New York Times Book Review)

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