Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings

Jane Austen

Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 September 2014
Pages
512
ISBN
9780140433340

Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings

Jane Austen

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 they are 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.

This edition includes all of Austen’s juvenilia, including her ‘History of England’ - written by ‘a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant Historian’ - and the novella ‘Lady Susan’, in which the anti-heroine schemes and cheats her way through high society. Taken together, they offer a fascinating - and often surprising - insight into the early Austen.

Edited by Christine Alexander, it includes an introduction, notes and other useful editorial materials.

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