{"product_id":"9780789211729","title":"Volume the First by Jane Austen: In Her Own Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time, Jane Austen’s brilliant early manuscripts are available in beautiful facsimile editions. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForever immortalized as the author of \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice,\u003c\/i\u003e Jane Austen actually produced her first “book” as a teenager, \u003ci\u003eVolume the First.\u003c\/i\u003e Taking its name from the inscription on the cover, this brilliant little collection includes the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from ages twelve to eighteen. The volume was produced for the enjoyment of her family and close friends—entertaining it was and is!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow it is available for all of us to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humor and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland’s introduction places Austen’s earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page. The work of a young adult, \u003ci\u003eVolume the First\u003c\/i\u003e nevertheless reveals the development of the unmistakable voice and style that would mark her as one of the most popular authors of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolume the First,\u003c\/i\u003e housed at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, includes the following stories: “Frederic \u0026amp; Elfrida,” “Jack \u0026amp; Alice,” “Edgar \u0026amp; Emma,” “Henry \u0026amp; Eliza,” “Mr Harley,” “Sir William Montague,” “Mr Clifford,” “The Beautiful Cassandra,” “Amelia Webster,” “The Visit,” “The Mystery,” “The three Sisters,” “Detached Pieces,” and “Ode to Pity.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNone of her six famous novels survives in complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own likenesses of Jane Austen’s notebooks as originally written—in her own hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearn more about the other books in the \u003ci\u003eIn Her Own Hand\u003c\/i\u003e series: \u003ci\u003eVolume the Second\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVolume the Third.\u003c\/i\u003e All three volumes are also available in the \u003ci\u003eIn Her Own Hand\u003c\/i\u003e series boxed set.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abbeville Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007726108912,"sku":"9780789211729","price":19.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780789211729_p0.jpg?v=1763666831","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780789211729","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}