Mr Mullan, an English professor at University College London, manages to make literary criticism fun.

穆兰先生是英国伦敦大学学院的一名英语教授，他设法使文学评论充满乐趣。

The best chapters are those in which Mr Mullan relates a theme in the novels to social history—moments that modern readers might otherwise miss.

穆兰将小说的主题同社会历史联系起来的章节，是本书最精彩的部分，否则现在的读者很有可能忽略掉那些历史时刻。

Like Mr Mullan's, Ms Johnson's book, “Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures”, shows that the novels demand rereading and can be interpreted in many ways.

约翰逊女士的著作《简·奥斯汀的狂热崇拜和文化》和穆兰的作品都表明，奥斯汀的小说值得反复品读，而且可以用很多方式来诠释。

This book provides entertaining trivia for Austen fans, who will be entranced by Mr Mullan's encyclopedic knowledge of the texts and the times in which she lived.

这本书向奥斯汀的粉丝提供了许多令人愉快的琐事, 穆兰对奥斯汀生活时代的了解以及渊博的文学知识会使那些粉丝们为此着迷。