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All roads lead to Austen, a yearlong journey with Jane, Amy Elizabeth Smith ; illustrations by Lucia Mancilla Prieto

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All roads lead to Austen

768041880

Amy Elizabeth Smith ; illustrations by Lucia Mancilla Prieto

a yearlong journey with Jane

How successfully does the world of Jane Austen translate into Spanish? One intrepid author finds out in this literary exploration/travel memoir. On sabbatical, Austen devotee Smith embarked on a project to discuss Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma with reading groups in Latin America. Displaying the good cheer and wry humor befitting an Austenite (as opposed to, say, an Emily Bronte or George Eliot enthusiast), she plunged into Spanish immersion classes in Guatemala, then set off for a romantic fling and the first of several reading adventures in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Smith was happy to discover that Austen's genteel 19th-century English setting and formal narrative style proved to be relatable to her eager readers: Nearly all of them recognized their own lives in the plots and affirmed that issues of gender, class and familial obligation transcend era and locale

Getting started -- Guatemala : Girls' night out -- Mexico : Sense in the land of sensibility -- Ecuador : Pride, prejudice, and tame iguanas -- Chile : Austen in the Andes -- Paraguay : Assumptions and Asunción -- Argentina : Last tango in Highbury -- The end and the beginning