15717 Eliot to follow up on the

to follow up on the original that was published in 1947

Miss Read's writing style abounds

Caroline took her life in an entirely different direction

Introduction by Constance Garrett

15717 Eliot to follow up on theAt pennies a copy, Austen's novels were some of the earliest mass marketed paperbacks. In the 19th century they were targeted to Britain's working class and were sold at train stations, traded for soap wrappers, and given as school prizes. This is the story of those paperbacks and other republications of Austen's novels told lovingly by a serious, scholarly collector who is an expert on book publishing as well as on Austen. Barchas shares the fun of