Love and freindship and other youthful writings
Contributors: Christine Alexander (Editor)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780140433340
Subjects: Literature: Texts
Description: "Jane Austen's brilliantly sophisticated teenage writings constitute her beginnings as a writer. We see in the works in this volume the sheer fun of her early sketches and their ridicule of human foibles, her parody of the absurdities of romance and sentimental fiction, her decision-making over choice of word and incident, her changing attitude towards character and style, and especially her earlu fascination with wordplay and hidden meanings that reveal her sprightly imagination."--Introduction.