{"product_id":"love-and-freindship-isbn-9780141395111","title":"Love and Freindship","description":"\u003cb\u003eAusten’s hilarious early stories and sketches—complete with her delightfully quirky spelling habits—now collected in one volume, including \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e, the basis for Whit Stillman's feature film \u003ci\u003eLove and Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Austen’s earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven-years-old, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work. But it is also a product of the times 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 mothers’ fingers, and a letter-writer who has murdered her whole family all feature in these highly spirited pieces. This edition includes all of Austen’s juvenilia, including her “\u003ci\u003eHistory of England\u003c\/i\u003e” - written by a 'partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian and the novella \u003ci\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e, in which the anti-heroine schemes and cheats her way through high society. With a title that captures a young Austen’s original idiosyncratic spelling habits and an introduction by Christine Alexander that shows how Austen was self-consciously fashioning herself as a writer from an early age, this is a must-have for any Austen lover.\"The kind of thing any casual Austen lover (which should be all of us, if we are human beings who can read) can leave on his or her coffee table. It’s perfect to pick up at any given moment, flip through and enjoy the page before you, thinking all the while about a teenage girl in the British countryside over 200 years ago, who is still making us crack up with her imagination and wit.” \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finely produced...for anyone languishing with a broken heart there is no better tonic than the comedy - and indeed the cathartic violence - of Jane Austen's youthful writings.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Had she written nothing but these early squibs, the author of “Frederic and Elfrida” might be remembered by a few scholars as a kind of eccentric girl genius—the Stevie Smith of 18th-century fiction. Instead, we have the extraordinary pleasure of seeing the greatest novelist in our language goofing off.\" \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Free Beacon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJANE AUSTEN (1775–1817) was the seventh child of the rector of the parish. In her youth she wrote many burlesques, parodies and other stories, including a short epistolary novel, \u003ci\u003eLady Susan. \u003c\/i\u003eThe novels published in Austen’s lifetime include \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility \u003c\/i\u003e(1811), \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice \u003c\/i\u003e(1813), \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park \u003c\/i\u003e(1814), and \u003ci\u003eEmma \u003c\/i\u003e(1816). P\u003ci\u003eersuasion \u003c\/i\u003ewas written in a race against failing health, and was published, together with \u003ci\u003eNorthanger Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e posthumously in 1818.  Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRISTINE ALEXANDER is the Scientia Professor of English at the University of New South Wales, general editor of the \u003ci\u003eJuvenilia Press \u003c\/i\u003eand co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (2005).\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300758638821,"sku":"NP9780141395111","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780141395111.jpg?v=1767731854","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/love-and-freindship-isbn-9780141395111","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}