Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 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. This major new edition is the first time Austen's juvenilia has appeared in Penguin Classics. Edited by Professor Christine Alexander it includes an introduction notes and other useful editorial materials. Jane Austen born in 1775, wrote many burlesques parodies and other stories in her youth 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 in 1815 - 16, 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 and general editor of the Juvenilia Press. She has published extensively on the Bront's and has co - edited the first book on literary juvenilia The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (2005). 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
Title: Love And Freindship And Other Youthful Writings
Author(s): Austen Jane, Christine Alexander
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141395111
Pages: 512 Pages
Publication Date: 2/16/2016
Category: Classic Fiction