{"product_id":"9781617430503","title":"Love and Freindship: And Other Early Works","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClassics for Your Collection:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cfont color=\"blue\"\u003egoo.gl\/U80LCr\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e---------\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Austen's Juvenilia!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis beautiful collection of the early works of Jane Austen uniquely shows the emerging talent of a brilliant and observant young woman. Completed before Austen was fifteen, the works are astonishing in their maturity. Blending the exuberance of youth with the sharp wit and devastating social criticism of her later novels, \u003ci\u003eLove and Freindship\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis a quick, undemanding and very entertaining read. For readers who appreciate Jane Austen's novels, it is fascinating to see her gift for wit and satire, her lively mind and her sense of the ridiculous so evident in her teenage writings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book starts with a letter from Isabel to her dear friend Laura, begging her to disclose the unhappy story of her life to her daughter Marianne as a cautionary tale. Laura complies in a series of letters to Marianne, and a more convoluted life history would be hard to imagine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Austen's juvenilia. The first of them written at age 14. The sharp eye for what's really happening, the ear for dialog, the unfailing BS meter, the wit that goes to the bone, the rapier-edged turns of phrase, the snobs, the buccaneers, the fortune-hunting jilters, even the names that will reappear attached to some of the most memorable characters in Eng lit--Dashwood, Annesley, Crawford, Willoughby. You can glimpse the incipient Lady Catherine, Lydia Bennett, Mrs. John Dashwood, lots of fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA short book. All epistolary--some just single letters--as Faye Weldon says in the intro, they're short stories all by themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome Quotes From the Book:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScroll Up and Grab Your Copy!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Austen's Books:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLady Susan by Jane Austen https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/6398116\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/6425513\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/6428190\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/6428537\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePersuasion by Jane Austen https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/6427638\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Greenbook Publications, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031879532784,"sku":"9781617430503","price":9.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617430503_p0.jpg?v=1763850122","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617430503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}