Love and Freindship
And Other Youthful Writings
$25.09
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2015
Summary
This sparkling collection of Austen’s early writings—some penned when she was just eleven years old—is playful, subversive, and shot through with wit.
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 old, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals, and money. But …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141395111 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141395117 |
| Author: | Jane Austen, Christine Alexander |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 375g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 29mm |
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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 was born on 16 December 1775. In her youth she wrote many burlesques, parodies and other stories, including a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan. The novels published in her lifetime include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Persuasion was written in a race against failing health, and was published, together with Northanger Abbey, posthumously in 1818. Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817.
Christine Alexander is Scientia Professor of English at the University of New South Wales, general editor of the Juvenilia Press and co-editor of The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (2005).
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