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

Austen, Jane

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9780760768563: Love and Freindship (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): and Other Early Works

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ISBN 10: 0760768560 ISBN 13: 9780760768563

Publisher: Barnes & Noble, 2005

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With its endearingly misspelled title, this collection of brief experimental sketches reveals the making of one of the best-loved authors of British literature. It includes stories that demonstrate the lively mind and ready wit of a teenage girl living in the late eighteenth century.

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This collection of the early works of Jane Austen uniquely displays the emerging talent of a brilliant and observant young woman. Completed before Austen was fifteen, the works are astonishing in their maturity. Blending the exuberance of youth with the sharp wit and devastating social criticism of her later novels, "Love and Friendship" is a collection not to be missed.

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.

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