So You Think You Know Jane Austen? by John Sutherland

So You Think You Know Jane Austen? Reviews

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  Laura

  Who would have thought answering questions could be this fun? Three levels of questions, from “Did you read?” to “Did you understand?” to “How astute are you?” with very entertaining and insightful answers. Great for all levels of Austen readers.
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  Alice

  En achetant ce livre de quizz et de questions, je m'attendais à quelque chose d'assez amusant, à un livre-jeu. En fait, les auteurs nous expliquent qu'il s'agit plus d'une méthode d'analyse et d'apprentissage. Pour chaque oeuvre, quatre niveaux de difficultés nous sont posés et même au premier niveau, il s'agit rarement de répondre par un seul mot ou deux ou alors on nous demande le nom du chien de Willoughby (Folly, by the way). Quant au quatrième niveau, nous sommes carrément dans l'interprétation et l'analyse avec lesquels je ne suis pas toujours d'accord qui plus est. Pour le coup, je ne peux pas dire que j'ai beaucoup apprécié ce livre ni même que j'y ai trouvé un grand intérêt. Mieux vaut relire les originaux il me semble, en version annotée si on veut en apprendre encore plus.
  
  
  
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  Ds

  ITA-ENG
  Ok. Probabilmente è un quiz da fare subito dopo aver riletto i libri. I dettagli minuziosi, come le rendite dei possedimenti o le doti, sfuggono alla mia memoria. Le domande sono abbastanza difficili, soprattutto quelle interpretative (e a volte non sono per niente d'accordo con le risposte fornite), però tutto sommato un buon quiz. L'unica cosa che non mi è piaciuta è che ogni tanto veniva fuori l'opinione molto personale (e poco accademica) degli autori.
  
  Ok. So you should probably read this right after you've finished re-reading the books. I definitely couldn't recall certain details, like the returns of the properties or dowries. The questions are pretty difficult, especially some of the interpretative ones (and sometimes I absolutely didn't agree with the answers provided) but all in all, a very good quiz book. The only thing I didn't like was that in certain answers the personal (and not very academic) opinion of the authors came out a little too strongly.
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  Zuzana

  I don't agree with every interpretation of JA books but it was a surprisingly fun read.
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  Kate

  I don't know Jane Austen (or rather, her books, as this was all about her books and not about Jane herself) as well as I thought, it turns out. The "Basic" questions weren't all that basic. They mentioned Fanny's Price's younger sibling's names sparingly in Mansfield Park... how am I supposed to remember them? And to what end? Their names are not important.
  
  I disagreed with some of the authors' analysis, but accede that they are professional Austen scholars and I am not and therefore probably in the wrong.
  
  I'd estimate I did the best in this order (makes sense since I've read the top 4 most recently):
  Persuasion
  Northanger Abbey
  Mansfield Park
  Sense and Sensibility
  Pride and Prejudice
  Emma
  
  
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  Andrea Hickman Walker

  I would never have believed I could disagree so profoundly with Deirdre le Faye. There are numerous interpretations in this book that I disagree with. There isn't even any space for, 'that's not what I think, but it's possible', most of the time I think the authors are just wrong. Occasionally there is one where I think they're being insightful or suggesting something that I've never thought of. But most of the time, I disagree with their interpretations.
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  Jenny

  A must-read for...well, you know, I think that's pretty evident. I got this from Helen for my birthday, and I later used it on a long car trip with Allie, so all of us Austenites agree that there's much to learn from this book.
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  Amy

  Very entertaining. I really enjoy the different quiz levels for each of the books. I think it's helpful that answers to the questions are included. For the essay type questions, there aren't necessarily right or wrong answers but it's interesting to see what the authors had in mind.
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  Amy

  Very entertaining. I really enjoy the different quiz levels for each of the books. I think it's helpful that answers to the questions are included. For the essay type questions, there aren't necessarily right or wrong answers but it's interesting to see what the authors had in mind.
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  Karen

  Fun for all the Janeites. It also give great insight and explains some of the more obscure references.
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  Countess of Frogmere

  Fun quizzes about the great Miss Austen. Some of them are hard!