Bibliograph

Love and Friendship, and Other Early Works, Jane Austen

Type

Label

Love and Friendship, and Other Early Works, Jane Austen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Love and Friendship

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jane Austen

Series statement

Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading

Sub title

and Other Early Works

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification