num_pages: 256
description: Jane Austen wrote the delightfully silly Love and Freindship and Other Early Works in her teenage years to entertain her family. With its endearingly misspelled title, the collection of brief experimental sketches reveals the making of one of the best-loved authors of British literature.In "Love and Freindship" and "Lesley Castle," Austen parodies the sentimental and Gothic novels of love at first sight, clandestine elopements, long-lost relatives, fainting, fatal riding accidents, adultery, and castles. In "The History of England," Austen confirms that the only thing children learn in their classrooms are a few dates and some inconsequential, but usually scandalous, details about the personal lives of monarchs. Fundamentally, though, the stories demonstrate the lively mind and ready wit of a teenage girl living in the late eighteenth century.
language: English
title: Love and Friendship and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Love and Friendship and Other Stories (Everyman Short Story Collection)
genres: Historical, British Literature, Classics, 19th Century, 18th Century, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Humor, Romance
ratings_count: 1603
publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )