Jane Austen also teaches us not to be to tough on introverts, they turn out to be her most worthy characters.

"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings" - Jane Austen

These videos have opened my eyes to the beauty of philosophy and literature. It's such a comforting feeling to learn that the questions and often sad thoughts in my head have been thought of and so thoroughly worked on by these great men and women in the past. In the past two weeks since I've started to watch these videos, I have seriously reconsidered many topics and views I have on life. It's a shame American core curriculum doesn't require the teaching of philosophy and reasoning. If more people learned and discussed these issues, it could make our societies and lives so much more fulfilling..

School of Life is one of the most humanistic channel on KZfaq.

I am thoroughly convinced that only the deepest love shall induce me into matrimony -Elizabeth 'Lizzie'

yes, her novels" make us laugh." Don't forget to emphasize how witty and funny Austen is.

Can you make more videos about women, please? (Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Wolf, George Eliot, Harper lee, the Bronte sisters, etc)

As a writer, she's my inspiration, and I'm not a professional writer, but I do love writing!!

J. Austen ,Pride and Prejudice is the first novel i read when i learned english, i still found it difficult but beautiful as i improved. i was mesmerized at her writing , how well she could work on the carachters. thank you for making a video of her life, she was amazing writer

I was actually named after Jane Austen

Make a video about the Brontë Sisters as well

What's even more crazy is that Jane Austen wasn't formally recognized as a great writer until the 1920's! During her life, people did not largely read her work, and it wasn't until many decades later when a Harvard Scholar wrote a seminal paper on her work did she finally get attention!

Make one about Oscar Wilde

I am SO thankful (to Jane of course) that she never married; selfish on my-part of course (and on a good many of you reader's out there) for if she had her whole life would have been given over to her husband and children. We would certainly have lost some of the greatest of English literature. I credit Jane for this presence of mind. Her book's are easy and beautiful reading.

Kudos to the animators of all the episodes. I don't think they get nearly enough appreciation :)

Its official ladies and gentlemen: Miss Austen is now the worlds most popular author ( really a literary juggernaut with latest spate of movies!) She's zoomed ahead of Shakespeare. Her timeless witty wise works are as contemporary today as when they were written. Brava!

I love hearing you guys talk about literature. I was never able to articulate my fondness for Austen so well as your description of why she is such a loved writer, but that's absolutely a key point in my adoration of her. So, thanks for the words for the feeling. =]

I truly appreciate your work.

I love her depictions of the outsiders. One can really relate to her characters because we've all felt on the outside of some situation at some point In all of our lives. The well off yearning to be Rich. The beautiful wanting to be perfect. Wanting to be loved by all when we are already loved by some.

An absolutely wonderful presentation. And this is so true. She was a stern moralist. And that's a good thing. And that's something we can definitely use today. More people need to read her in that light. She was a daughter of a vicar, for God’s sake. If we all take some of her lessons to heart, we can lead a better life.

This sole video has tought me more about relationships than any advice from anyone i have ever talked to ;D thanks school of life , keep it up !

A very informative piece that made me reconsider reading Jane Austen again. Thank you for this brilliant and thoughtful production, this high standard and in general the effort the entire team puts into each and every video. Thank you School of Life!

Ayyy!!!! This is what I've been saying about Jane Austen. This is where her genius lies. We all like to have a better since of what we *ought* to do, and Austen gives it to us in her context, and with memorable characters. For me, when I first read 'Northanger Abbey' and realized how Catherine essentially matures on Isabella's back, I was furnished with the idea of 'reading people' as a life skill. And even though I do it poorly, I try to do it consciously (as opposed to subconsciously). Her dad may have been the preacher of God's effectual grace, but I suspect her writing has done more to cultivate relational warmth and discernment across the English-speaking world. Thanks for this, TSOL. Great work :)

One of my favorite authors.Love her very much

I think Mansfield Park satisfies all of Jane's teaching goals

I honestly don't understand how this channel is not more popular. While I don't always agree with the attitudes or conclusions of your videos, I still find it interesting to get other people's perspectives on specific topics. It helps me grow as a person through viewing things from angles I may have never thought to even consider if not for your channel. So thanks you for that :)

Excellent video. She writes with elegance and subtlety, clear-headed and warm-hearted. Her work is timeless :)

I never had a chance to read her novels but her perspective on life is truly one to behold.

Jane Austen is such a great author I simply love her books. My favorite is Emma.

I love jane austen and have read most of her novels but this has made me appreciate her at a much higher level

Wonderful writer, timeless and charming.

You are the best literary analysis writers/presenters on KZfaq! I love you guys and I hope you gain more subs

what a great thinker ,really her ideas and beliefs regarding love are fascinating !!!

Hi, just wanted you to know that I stumbled upon this video a couple of years ago after a Literature lesson in which we were tasked to read P&P. I didn't like it. But the 1st advice from Austen you present here, sticked with me for a reason. It is now, on my 10th year anniversary with my boyfriend that I can see why. You see, I had a best friend who only made me hate myself more by the minute because I would never be able to be what she wanted me to be to the point I could not bear to voice my likes and dislikes to anyone just in case they were the same as her. Her way of thinking was so engraved into my mind that she had became the norm. Until one day, this insanely great guy came into my life. He taught me how to love myself, how I don't have to sell myself short, that I'm worthy of all the good things that happen to me and it's okay to like videogames, anime, kpop (it may sound silly, but repressing your passions and the things you like is like renouncing to your identity to me) and that I shouldn't be ashamed of not being like others. And I found that there were more like me hidden between those others. He opened up my mind to so many worlds just so that I could feel comfortable with myself. God, he loves ME and I love HIM!! I'll spend the rest of my life by his side, still learning, and trying my best just so that I can "improve" his life as much as he has improved mine. Thank you

Novels with a didactic purpose that indicate how man's prevailing vices may be circumvented are true classics. Thanks tremendously for synthesizing such practical principles! xx

Austin does indeed do all the things you say and yet she also has one more very important trick up her sleeve, and that is to chronicle the English gentry's final transition out of the Age of Enlightenment and into the Romantic era. What's more, she seems to be somewhat skeptical of each paradigm. For example, we see these two world views embodied and contrasted in Sense and Sensibility's Elinor and Marianne. In the story, each is in her own way an incompletely developed personality until experience and reflection change them and bring each a little closer to the other in thinking and behavior.

I have been watching this channel since that Marx video had less than 30k views. I adore your work, it really helps me in my day to day life. So thanks for that. I would really appreciate a Franz Kafka video please, no one on youtube, but this channel can do him justice. Thanks.

One of the true and rare pleasures of my life.. work of Alain de Botton. My ultimate teacher and guide in understanding the mechanisms of life. Thank you :)

"You taught me a lesson" Yeah, get 'em, Elizabeth.

thanks for Portuguese captions.

This video was just beautiful! Thank you for making it!

Now we need a similarly excellent video on the life & work of George Orwell!

really enjoying the Literature series, would love to see more!

Thank you for this educating video. Although she had a little fame during her life, her work gained enormous popularity after her death.

My pastor taught me this. And he suggests Jane Austen too. Amen. That's what got me and gets me back into Austen. :)

Make one about Charlotte Brönte :)

this is synchronicity bebe. I was reading Austen when I got the message

I remember being introduced to her work in high school, I was totally disinterested. I just wanted to get home and watch wrestling or play video games. Now that I'm 33 I understand, seems silly to think a 17 year old boy would appreciate the fine delicacies of social commentary.

I watched The Jane Austen Book Club today and after watching this video I decided to read Pride and Prejudice. I am happy to report that I have read a significant amount of pages and am enjoying it.

Thanks for this Jane Austen Crash Course!

Mate you have the most encouraging intro, it's like from a scene from Dr. No (1962) where they're dancing on a tropical island whilst conducting an undercover investigation

She is the one that makes me engage in literature

It's strange to hear that people read Austen's novels as dramas of manners; in fact, most read them for the moral lessons and serious conversations found in them. And to me they seem all essentially alike, in that unusually intelligent and verbal women and men find each other over time, overcoming misunderstandings and the social meddling of "loved ones," such as Elizabeth Bennett's horride mother. If Austen weren't the great writer she was, any of her novels would be enough, so similar are they. As for the importance of money; we must consider the time and settings - she was down to earth and above class-based judgments, downright revolutionary. Another, later writer in her mold was the American Edith Wharton, who deserves similar attention.

Could you please do more videos on literature? The parts that you highlight in these classic authors are truly enjoyable. Thank you!

I really love this channel. I just subscribed the other day abs I can't get enough. I was just wondering, could you guys do a series on music, like you have for art and literature? Specifically an episode on Miles Davis? Again, thanks so much for what you do!

OMG! I wait for this episode for a long time . Thanks the school of life :D (Dung Leo)

I LOVE Miss Austen! thanks a lot

Dang I love this!!! Totally want to read this book again :) it was beautiful. And I felt so mature. That I could not grasp it at a young age.

I love her books

Great. Thanks for the recommendation, Raimund.

I think a video about JD Salinge would be nice. :)

Maybe a video about Dickens, a Christmas carol is one of my favourite books, with the morals of money and philanthropy.

pleaseeee make one about Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, Kafka, Stendhal..... pretty pleaseeeee

Make a Tolstoy video, please!

I humbly beg you guys to do a video on Thomas Hardy. I have recently read Tess of the D'urbervilles, and even though it is not my first Hardy novel, it left such a mark in my soul and made me want to know more about this man

Austen is ❤

Excellent video... I dont know anything abt jane austen except her name... Looking for sth that allows me a glimpse into her world and your clip has done this perfectly. I m very much tempted to read her work now.

Great! If I could make videos about Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Paine, Lord Byron and Kafka that would be even better

Can you do Geoffrey Chaucer?

Love how beautifully you've put this content together. +The School of Life the What animation/ video edition program are you using?

This is a fantastic channel. Please make *a video on Chanakya* (philosopher, economist, statesman) and other Asian + Indian philosophers.

I dare you to make a video about Nabokov

I love Jane Austen

Love this handsome woman!

Jane Austen is the best teacher of our world.

Thanks!

Brilliant video!!

Could you please do a video on George Orwell? He is a great novelist but also an excellent essayist! I think it would be really interesting if you guys did a feature on his ideas, imperialist point of view and his influences.

From my perspective much of what is said is true and valuable in real life.

This was wonderful!

" 'having money's not everything, not having it is' -jane austen" -kanye west

hello, firstly your videos are simply fascinating. I'm still looking forward to more literature figures like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Stephan Zweig, Jack London, Agatha Christie, there are plenty of them!!! overall thanks a lot for all the videos!!!

please do a series for modern authors also!

Please please please do more literature videos!

Best Jane Austen ever: 'Amy and Amiability'... No, wait, that was Blackadder!...

I have three books about JANE AUSTEN and i love them,PRIDE AND PREJUDICE,EMMA and JANE AUSTEN S life.

The collage on 2:26, is it a reference to 'playing charades'? It made me remember a scene from Jane Eyre where Mr. Rochester and Blanche Ingram pose 'scenes' in the drawing room (complete with props and curtains for the entr'acte) and the audience guess the word it supposed to represent. It's supposed to be a fashionable drawing-room entertainment at that time. And the reference of marrying without enough money brought the memory of Lydia Bennet and George Wickham's marriage in Pride and Prejudice; although the marriage is based on folly on the other side and compromise on the other... Great job on the video as always; I've only read Pride and Prejudice, but now I want to read them all! :D

I agree with #1 love should be a two-sided thing

well this is, i love you

Thank's! I like a video about writers. And this video is my English lessons) Thank's a lot!

I'd love to see you do a video on E. B. White!

It would be great if you do videos on Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde.

Congratulations, fast but enlightening.

Can we get a video on William Faulkner or F.scott Fitzgerald. I feel American lit deserves more representation

Hey Schooloflife, perhaps an interesting idea for a video might be the dutch 'gezelligheid'? It's one of those cultural things you need to be part of to fully understand, but it would be nice to see it explained by you.

Brilliant

It isn't Julia who gets married to Mr Rushworth :) Maria, her sister is the one who does. But this is indeed very informative!

Well done and beautifully presented. Minor edit that it’s Maria Bertram (not Julia) who married James Rushworth.

Please do a literature video on H.P. Lovecraft !

I wish you could create videos as fast as I watch them.