{"product_id":"love-and-freindship-by-jane-austen-9780141395111","title":"Love and Freindship","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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 old 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrunken 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 \u003cem\u003eHistory of England\u003c\/em\u003e—written by 'a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant Historian'—and the novella \u003cem\u003eLady Susan\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46486326739180,"sku":"9780141395111","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8753093482238.jpg?v=1748307822","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/love-and-freindship-by-jane-austen-9780141395111","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}