Praise for Jane Austen when it first appeared in 1986: '...a fine achievement...a book that sometimes provokes but invariably stimulates.' - Peter Kemp, The Independent ...'one of the most readable books yet to appear on Jane Austen, as well as the most interesting in itself.' - John Bayley, London Review of Books 'He has a fine eye for the apparently slight detail which can unfurl signification.Tanner makes the reader think anew about Jane Austen and about much else in the light of her writing.' - Gillian Beer, The Times Higher Educational Supplement