Love and Friendship by Jane Austen - 9781847496331

Alma Books Ltd

Love and FriendshipAnnotated edition which includes Lesley Castle, A History of England, The Three Sisters, Catharine, A Collection of Letters and Lady Susan\nAuthor(s): Jane Austen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Alma Books Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Alma Classics\nISBN-13: 9781847496331, 978-1847496331\nSynopsis\nThese inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austens mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly.\nLove and Friendship and Lesley Castle provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. A History of England supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are The Three Sisters, Catharine, the series of vignettes known as A Collection of Letters and Lady Susan, an epistolary story which was recently adapted for the cinema. Taken together, these pieces displa.