Love and freindship and other youthful writings
Austen, Jane, 1775-18172015
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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.
Main title:
Love and freindship and other youthful writings / Jane Austen ; edited by Christine Alexander.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2015.
Collation:
512 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780141395111 (pbk)
Dewey class:
828.7'09828.709
Language:
English
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BRN:
2170582
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