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DVD : Biography - Jane AustenIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Biography  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $9.96 (40%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: A&E EAN: 0733961764352 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: A&E Home Video Manufacturer: A&E Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: A&E Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 26, 2006 Running Time: 50 minutes Studio: A&E Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Sales Rank: 29349 MPN: AAE-76435 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In six extraordinary works she cast her ironic but ultimately sympathetic eye on the life of privilege in Georgian England. But her work was not appreciated until well after her lifetime.Jane Austen's books have been in print continuously for over two centuries. They have been made into movies sometimes several times in a single year. Her wit and wisdom remain undimmed though the world she chronicled has long since disappeared. And her incredible artistic achievement is all the more impressive when one considers that she wrote her two greatest novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility before she turned 21. From her brief life to her place in the literary canon BIOGRAPHY® draws on interviews with experts and Austen's own words to tell her unique tale.System Requirements:Running Time: 50 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 733961764352 Manufacturer No: AAE-76435 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - DisappointingI was terribly disappointed in this DVD. It seemed more like an advertisement for other movies than a biography on Jane Austen. My $20 would have been better spent elsewhere. I think I would have discovered more about Jane Austen in a book than on this DVD. It seemed there wasn't enough information to fill the time, so they highlighted several other movies made that were based on the Pride and Prejudice theme. I yawned through most of it. The little information they did reveal about Jane Austen ... Read More Rating:  - In over their headsA weak and disappointing attempt to capture Jane Austen's life in a format familiar to most television viewers. Capturing the life of a contemporary celebrity in viewable format at least does not have the problem of lack of materials. Making an interesting and accurate viewable life of a woman who lived before the age of photography, who was not a celebrity in her lifetime, and of whom there is no authenticated full-face portrait except a sketch by her sister--that's hard. (Even Ken Burns has failed ... Read More Rating: - Disappointed........I found this DVD very disappointing. It attempted to present an interesting position about Jane Austen's life but it fell short in the area of facts about her life. Nothing can be worse, in my opinion, than when a documentary distorts the facts about a famous person's life but it is even worse when they get some of them completely wrong like this one did. Their attempt to make a more worldly perspective on Jane Austen was interesting but I found this annoying because it was the focus of the whole documentary ... Read More Rating:  - Jane Austen's Enduring AppealA&E's Jane Austen Biography (2004) is a lively, informative, and interesting documentary on the extremely popular British novelist whose work continues to attract readers and film viewers. I could never imagine that such an engaging documentary could be produced on an author with very few surviving images and rather elusive biographical details. The documentary relies largely on a variety of period images, clips from films based on Jane Austen novels, dramatization of moments from Austen's life, and a number ... Read More Rating: - Made me feel close to Dear Miss Austen!I haven't joined the JA society yet, but I am a diehard Jane Austen fan. This documentary was well researched and presented Miss Austen as a three dimensional human being. I enjoyed getting to know her through letters and family stories. Highly recommended to students and book lovers of all ages. Browse for similar items by category:
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