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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings
Jane Austen
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Description for Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings
Paperback. Featuring early stories, sketches by the author, this book includes an introduction, notes and other useful editorial materials. Editor(s): Alexander, Christine. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 356.
Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth century in which she grew up - dark, grotesque, often surprisingly bawdy, and a far cry from the polished, sparkling novels of manners for which she became famous. Drunken heroines, babies who bite off their mother's fingers, ... Read more
Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth century in which she grew up - dark, grotesque, often surprisingly bawdy, and a far cry from the polished, sparkling novels of manners for which she became famous. Drunken heroines, babies who bite off their mother's fingers, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141395111
SKU
V9780141395111
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About Jane Austen
Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed ... Read more
Reviews for Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings
A superb new reader's edition of Austen's complete juvenilia ... based upon a careful study of the original manuscripts and including an excellent introduction
The Jane Austen Society of North America
[Her] inspiration was the inspiration of Gargantua and of Pickwick; it was the gigantic inspiration of laughter
G. K. Chesterton Spirited, easy, full of fun, verging ... Read more
The Jane Austen Society of North America
[Her] inspiration was the inspiration of Gargantua and of Pickwick; it was the gigantic inspiration of laughter
G. K. Chesterton Spirited, easy, full of fun, verging ... Read more