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Love and Friendship

Annotated edition which includes Lesley Castle, A History of England, The Three Sisters, Catharine, A Collection of Letters and Lady Susan
By Jane Austen
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Love and Friendship showcases Jane Austen's early wit and imagination through a collection of inventive, often amusing and acerbic pieces written in her teenage years. Featuring parodies of the gentry and the period's sensibility in works like Love and Friendship and Lesley Castle, alongside a lively historical chronicle in A History of England, the collection also includes The Three Sisters, Catharine, a series of vignettes in A Collection of Letters, and the epistolary story Lady Susan, recently adapted for film. Together, these works reveal Austen’s early mastery of wry humour, sharp observation, and satirical insight reminiscent of her later, celebrated novels.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This collection will appeal to readers who appreciate classic British literature, satire, and Jane Austen’s distinctive wit, as well as those interested in early works by renowned authors and fans of period drama adaptations.

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A wonderful addition to Alma Classics' Jane Austen collection, here presented to include all the popular British writer's juvenilia

A wonderful addition to Alma Classics' Jane Austen collection, here presented to include all the popular British writer's juvenilia

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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.

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Helen Fielding praises Jane Austen as a highly acute and perceptive writer, who captures intimate details of women's lives that reflect broader social and human issues.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781847496331

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 January 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Alma Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 255g

Pages: 288

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction

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.

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