{"product_id":"love-and-freindship-jane-austen-9780141395111","title":"Love and Freindship","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is playful, subversive and shot through with wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJane 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. 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. 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. 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. Taken together, they offer a fascinating - and often surprising - insight into the early Austen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis major new edition is the first time Austen's juvenilia has appeared in Penguin Classics. Edited by Professor Christine Alexander, it includes an introduction, notes and other useful editorial materials.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane Austen","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43174690423027,"sku":"9780141395111","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780141395111.jpg?v=1662066673","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/love-and-freindship-jane-austen-9780141395111","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}