Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed enthusiasm for her timeless stories of romance, family relations, and human natures. Austen is currently more popular than ever. In recent years nearly every one of her novels has been gorgeously filmed and reinterpreted to captivate today's sensibilities. Both diehard Austen addicts and new converts to the cult will find endless revelations and witty insights in The Friendly Jane Austen