Love and Freindship (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): and Other Early Works - Softcover

Jane Austen; Introduction By Sarah S. G. Frantz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760768560 ISBN 13: 9780760768563

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 2005

Synopsis

Jane Austen wrote the delightfully silly Love and Freindship and Other Early Works in her teenage years to entertain her family. With its endearingly misspelled title, the collection of brief experimental sketches reveals the making of one of the best-loved authors of British literature. In 'Love and Friendship' and 'Lesley Castle', Austen parodies the sentimental and Gothic novels of love at first sight, clandestine elopements, long-lost relatives, fainting, fatal riding accidents, adultery, and castles. In 'The History of England', Austen confirms that the only thing children learn in their classrooms are a few dates and some inconsequential, but usually scandalous, details about the personal lives of monarchs. Fundamentally, though, the stories demonstrate the lively mind and ready wit of a teenage girl living in the late eighteenth century.

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About the Author:

One of England s most beloved authors, Jane Austen wrote such classic novels as Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. Published anonymously during her life, Austen s work was renowned for its realism, humour, and commentary on English social rites and society at the time. Austen s writing was supported by her family, particularly by her brother, Henry, and sister, Cassandra, who is believed to have destroyed, at Austen s request, her personal correspondence after Austen s death in 1817. Austen s authorship was revealed by her nephew in A Memoir of Jane Austen, published in 1869, and the literary value of her work has since been recognized by scholars around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0760768560
• ISBN 13: 9780760768563
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112