{"product_id":"love-and-freindship-and-other-youthful-writings-9780141395111","title":"Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641967448338,"sku":"9780141395111","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c1186656-e3ec-4c4b-95cd-9c5bae63256e.jpg?v=1733048131","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-and-freindship-and-other-youthful-writings-9780141395111","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}