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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of our greatest writers. But before that, she was just an ordinary girl. In fact, young Jane was a bit quiet and shy; if you had met her back then, you might not have noticed her at all. But she would have noticed you. Jane watched and listened to all the things people around her did and said, and locked those observations away for safekeeping. Jane also loved to read. She devoured everything in her father’s massive library and before long, she began creating her own stories. In her time, the most popular books were grand adventures and romances, but Jane wanted to go her own way...and went on to invent an entirely new kind of novel. Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen includes a timeline and quotes from Austen's most popular novels.

众所周知，简·奥斯丁是世界上zui伟大的作家之一。但在那之前，她只是一个平凡的女孩。小时候的简很安静、害羞，不太引人注目，但她善于观察和倾听。简也很喜欢阅读，她在父亲的藏书室阅读着一切，包括她zui喜欢的小说。在简生活的时代，zui受欢迎的书都是耸人听闻的冒险和爱情故事，简想创作属于自己的故事，她想创作一种全新的小说，写那些真实的人，为平凡世界竖起一面镜子。为此，简从不放弃，她不断完善自己的小说，直到每个词都完美。就这样，简写出了《理智与情感》《傲慢与偏见》《曼斯菲尔德庄园》《爱玛》《诺桑觉寺》《劝导》这六部小说，直到今天，简的作品依然被全世界的人们阅读并喜爱着。金风筝奖得主黛博拉·霍普金森以简洁易读的文字，华裔插画家冷沁用淡雅的水彩插画，共同对简·奥斯丁进行了一次令人愉悦的致敬。简·奥斯丁是一位独立的思想者，她将平凡的生活写成了非凡的故事，让世世代代的读者都得到启发和鼓舞。