Description
These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly.
'Love and Friendship' and 'Lesley Castle' provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. 'A History of England' supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are 'The Three Sisters', 'Catharine', the series of vignettes known as 'A Collection of Letters' and 'Lady Susan', an epistolary story which was recently adapted for the cinema. Taken together, these pieces display all the wry humour, shrewd observation and satirical insight of Emma or Pride and Prejudice.
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 08/22/2017
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 4.20w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781847496331
ISBN10: 1847496334
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | Regency
About the Author
The witty and sharply satirical novels of Jane Austen (1775-1817) have an influence that shows no sign of waning, with continual adaptations and echoes in contemporary culture, and an ever-enthusiastic audience.