★Transform the timeless charm of Jane Austen's works into a key for language learning. Through classic themes such as simplicity, nature, pleasure, and sobriety, you will be led into the depths of authentic English, making learning no longer a dull task but a profound dialogue with a literary master.
★Author Dr. Alain J. E. Wolf is an expert in second language acquisition and a lecturer in Applied Linguistics. With deep expertise in the challenges and essence of teaching language through literature, he has distilled decades of cross-cultural teaching experience into this book. It serves as a rare practical guide and spiritual comfort for all teachers and learners who bravely embark on the journey of learning English through literature.

A celebration of the undimmable genius of Jane Austen’s work to help us to understand some of the processes of learning a foreign language through literary texts.
Dr Wolf asks why Jane Austen’s work makes so many of us want to appoint her as our guide and advisor and why she may ultimately help us to understand the processes of learning a language through the themes of simplicity, nature, pleasure, sobriety, getting it wrong and religion.

This book is for teachers and learners of English as a foreign language embarking on the perilous, and often vexed, journey of teaching/learning it through literature.

Dr Alain J.E Wolf has a PhD in the expression of subjectivity and voice in a second language. he has worked in language departments in London as an advisor in the teaching of second language learners and political refugees, as a teacher-trainer and lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Eötvös Lorand Tudomanyegyetem, Budapest, Hungary in the 1990’s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and most recently in Romania where he has conducted research on students’ perspectives to literature teaching.