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Love and Friendship
Jane Austen
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Description for Love and Friendship
Paperback. These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 40. Weight in Grams: 274.
These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly. `Love and Friendship' and `Lesley Castle' provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. `A History of England' supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are `The Three Sisters', `Catharine', the series of vignettes known as `A Collection of Letters' and `Lady Susan', an epistolary story which was recently ... Read more
These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly. `Love and Friendship' and `Lesley Castle' provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. `A History of England' supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are `The Three Sisters', `Catharine', the series of vignettes known as `A Collection of Letters' and `Lady Susan', an epistolary story which was recently ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Alma Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Richmond, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847496331
SKU
KSK0000323
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Jane Austen
The witty and sharply satirical novels of Jane Austen (1775-1817) have an influence that shows no sign of waning, with continual adaptations and echoes in contemporary culture, and an ever-enthusiastic audience.
Reviews for Love and Friendship
Jane Austen is one of my favourite writers... very acute, very perceptive, and writing in close and honest detail about the tiny preoccupations of women's lives - preoccupations which speak of much larger social and human issues.
Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding