Love and Freindship
And Other Youthful Writings
$34.99
- Hardcover
512 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2014
Summary
Jane Austen’s earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years old, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work. But it is also a product of the eighteenth century she grew up in - 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, and a letter-writer who has murdered her whole family all feature in these very funny pieces.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140433340 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140433341 |
| Author: | Jane Austen, Christine Alexander |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 648g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 138mm x 43mm |
| Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
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Critics Review
“The kind of thing any casual Austen lover (which should be all of us, if we
Spirited, easy, full of fun, verging with freedom upon sheer nonsense … At fifteen she had few illusions about other people and none about herself – Virginia Woolf
[Her] inspiration was the inspiration of Gargantua and of Pickwick; it was the gigantic inspiration of laughter – G. K. Chesterton
About The Author
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 by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.
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