William Deresiewicz: 6 books

An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate...

A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” (People). As a professor at Yale,...

This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on her later novels. In comparing the earlier and later phases of Austen's career, Deresiewicz addresses an important yet neglected issue...

What does friendship mean today? What did it used to mean? How are Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the online world changing the way we relate to one another - and ourselves? Bestselling author William Deresiewicz traces the history of friendship from Homer to Seinfeld to show how we got to where...

Never before has admission to elite colleges been so sought after. Parents spend a fortune trying to get their kids in; kids spend their high school years preparing to fill in every blank on their applications. But what, in the end, does it get them? asks William Deresiewicz, a former Yale University...

Quando William Deresiewicz, all'età di ventisette anni, scopre Jane Austen, è un giovane presuntuoso, sentimentalmente immaturo e persuaso che quei «romanzetti da femmine» non facciano di certo per lui. Pochi mesi dopo è un uomo trasformato: nelle pagine dei romanzi austeniani, infatti, scopre...