Love and friendship and other writings
By: Jane Austen
Publisher: Oneworld Classics
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781847490926
Subjects: English Epistolary fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Fiction
Description: "These inventive and entertaining pieces display the genesis of the wit and imagination of Jane Austen{u2019}s mature fiction, and are by turns amusing, acerbic, and occasionally downright silly. The stories Love and Friendship and Lesley Castle provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time, while A History of England is a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are The Three Sisters, Catharine, and the series of vignettes known as A Collection of Letters. Taken together, these pieces display all the wry humour, shrewd observation and satirical insight of Emma or Pride and Prejudice."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-173).
Table of contents: title: Love and friendship; title: Lesley Castle; title: The history of England; title: The three sisters; title: Catherine, or, The bower; title: A collection of letters; title: Notes; title: Jane Austen's life; title: Jane Austen's work.