{"product_id":"9781035098651-three-sisters","title":"Jack and Alice","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFive ingenious stories written by the young Jane Austen. One of ten pocket-sized paperbacks from Macmillan Collector's Library celebrating the art of the short story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese astoundingly clever stories were written when Jane Austen was between just eleven and eighteen years old, and deserve to be read and admired alongside her novels.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack and Alice \u003c\/i\u003erecounts a raucous masquerade ball and the gossip it provides for months afterwards; Alice, who has had a bit too much to drink, becomes infatuated with the pompous Charles Adams. In \u003ci\u003eThe Three Sisters,\u003c\/i\u003e Mary is determined to be married before her sisters are, even if it means marrying a man she absolutely cannot stand. These stories burst with scandal and absurdity, featuring dramatic deaths, sudden marriage proposals, a prison break, a poisoning, robbery, a shipwreck, and secret affairs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAusten’s wicked sense of humour is fully unleashed here, as she brilliantly skewers romantic, societal and narrative conventions. Her teenage stories are the works of a true genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis series of pocket-sized paperbacks celebrates the art of the short story and marks Macmillan Collector's Library's 10th anniversary. Each contains a curated selection of short stories from a literary giant: Katherine Mansfield, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Alice Dunbar Nelson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Rabindranath Tagore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56540722725238,"sku":"9781035098651","price":5.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41502015_afb79e8b-8aa5-4261-851a-6882475695c5.jpg?v=1780539124","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035098651-three-sisters","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}