Love and freindship: and other youthful writings

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Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.Jane 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.This 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.Jane Austen, born in 1775, wrote many burlesques, parodies and other stories in her youth, including a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan. The novels published in her lifetime include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16, and was published, together with Northanger Abbey,posthumously in 1818. Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817.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, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (2005).'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'[Her] inspiration was the inspiration of Gargantua and of Pickwick; it was the gigantic inspiration of laughter' - G. K. Chesterton

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Autor: Jane Austen

Organizador: Christine Alexander

Ilustrador: Coralie Bickford-Smith

Autor

JANE AUSTEN

Jane Austen nasceu em Steventon, Hampshire, em 16 de dezembro de 1775. Principal escritora inglesa de todos os tempos, escreveu prolificamente e desde muito jovem, legando romances, contos, novelas e outros textos curtos e avulsos. As obras lançadas durante sua vida foram publicadas anonimamente, e foi apenas e sua lápide que ela veio a ser identificada como a autora de sucessos como Razão e Sensibilidade, Orgulho e Preconceito, Emma e Persuasão. Seus textos inspiraram obras contemporâneas como O diário de Bridget Jones e As patricinhas de Beverly Hills. Morreu em 18 de julho de 1817, aos 42 anos, vítima do mal de Addison. Deixou inacabado o romance Sanditon.