{"product_id":"9780141395111-love-and-freindship","title":"Love and Freindship","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Other Youthful Writings\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing early stories, sketches by the author, this book includes an introduction, notes and other useful editorial materials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Austen, born in 1775, wrote many burlesques, parodies and other stories in her youth, including a short epistolary novel, \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e. The novels published in her lifetime include \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility \u003c\/i\u003e(1811), \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice \u003c\/i\u003e(1813), \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e (1814) and \u003ci\u003eEmma \u003c\/i\u003e(1816). \u003ci\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/i\u003e was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16, and was published, together with \u003ci\u003eNorthanger Abbey,\u003c\/i\u003eposthumously in 1818. Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817.  \u003cbr\u003e 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 Brontës and has co-edited the first book on literary juvenilia, \u003ci\u003eThe Child Writer from Austen to Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e (2005).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Her] inspiration was the inspiration of Gargantua and of Pickwick; it was the gigantic inspiration of laughter' - G. K. Chesterton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449655046518,"sku":"9780141395111","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39226142_e59a0a17-6ed7-426d-90cd-605148257402.jpg?v=1767083134","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141395111-love-and-freindship","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}