Lejos de Cassandra

Like a rear window, Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra provide a fascinating insight into the author's life. Love relationships, worldly occasions, visits to neighbors, outings to the theater: tiny everyday details that reveal the most intimate facet of Austen's world and help us to reconstruct the personality of one of the most important authors in the history of literature. In this original epistolary selection, the reader finds a valuable access key to Austen's private life and at the same time a glimpse of her overwhelming literary talent, applied here to the delicate art of letter writing, which, in the words of the writer herself, "It consists of knowing how to express on paper exactly what one would say to the person if you were talking to them".