![]() Jane Austen, born in 1775, wrote many burlesques, parodies and other stories in her youth, including a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan. Edited by Professor Christine Alexander, it includes an introduction, notes and other useful editorial materials. ![]() This major new edition is the first time Austen's juvenilia has appeared in Penguin Classics. Taken together, they offer a fascinating - and often surprising - insight into the early Austen. This edition includes all of Austen's juvenilia, including her 'History of England' - written by 'a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant Historian' - and the novella 'Lady Susan', in which the anti-heroine schemes and cheats her way through high society. Drunken heroines, babies who bite off their mother's fingers, and a letter-writer who has murdered her whole family all feature in these very funny pieces. But it is also a product of the eighteenth century 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. ![]() Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. ![]() ![]() Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. ![]()
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