Love and freindship and other youthful writings
Austen, Jane, 1775-18172015
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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. Here are bawdy sketches, short tales, imagined letters and miniature histories in which vain, egotistical men forget their own wives, drunken young women slander and poison their competition, and one woman accepts two marriage proposals for fear of causing offence. 'Love and Freindship' is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family, is written as letters from one friend to another, and is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. Also featured is the novella 'Lady Susan', telling of an adulterous aristocrat who manipulates and deceives those around her for personal gain. Delighting in nonsense and wordplay, these riotous pieces reveal Austen's dark, anarchic young imagination.
Main title:
Love and freindship and other youthful writings / Jane Austen ; edited and with an introduction and notes by Christine Alexander.
Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Books, 2015.[London] : Penguin Books, 2015.
Collation:
lxiii, 446 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
"Jane Austen's original spelling of her title 'Love and freindship and other youthful writings' has been retained in this edition"--Title page verso.First published in Penguin Classics 2014.Includes bibliographical references (pages [liii]-lvii).
ISBN:
9780141395111
Dewey class:
823.7
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
191158
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 823.7 AUST | Available |