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Juvenilia

Autor Jane Austen
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Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between 1787 and 1793.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781983940774
ISBN-10: 1983940771
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg

Cuprins

Introduction; Note on the text; Volume the First: Frederic and Elfrida; Jack and Alice; Edgar and Emma; Henry and Eliza; The adventures of Mr Harley; Sir William Mountague; Memoirs of Mr Clifford; The beautiful Cassandra; Amelia Webster; The Visit; The Mystery; The Three Sisters; A fragment - written to inculcate the practise of Virtue; A beautiful description of the different effects of Sensibility on different Minds; The Generous Curate; Ode to Pity; Volume the Second: Love and Freindship; Lesley Castle; The History of England; A Collection of Letters; The female philosopher; The First Act of a Comedy; A Letter from a Young Lady; A Tour through Wales; A Tale; Volume the Third: Evelyn, Catharine, or the Bower; Corrections and Emendations; Appendix A. The History of England: facsimile; Appendix B. Marginalia in Oliver Goldsmith's The History of England; Appendix C. Marginalia in Vicesimus Knox's Elegant Extracts; Appendix D. Sophia Sentiment's letter in The Loiterer; Appendix D. Continuations of 'Evelyn' and 'Catharine' by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes.

Recenzii

'The Juvenilia, here presented with full explanatory notes, can now take their important place in Jane Austen's works.' The Jane Austen Society Newsletter
'Sabor provides in their respective volumes a generous, helpful, and historically informed introduction to the work and its reception; a set of informative, judicious explanatory notes; and a meticulously prepared and visually well presented text. … Sabor's achievement in the edition of the Juvenilia is a tour de force.' Devoney Looser, University of Missouri

Notă biografică

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose work transformed the novel of manners into one of the most precise and enduring forms of literary art. Born in Steventon, Hampshire, Austen wrote with extraordinary command of irony, dialogue, social observation, and moral structure. Her major novels-Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion-examine courtship, family, property, class, women's education, inheritance, and the social pressures surrounding marriage in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.Austen's reputation has grown steadily since her lifetime, and she is now regarded as one of the central figures in English literature. Her fiction combines romantic satisfaction with disciplined social intelligence, exposing vanity, self-deception, snobbery, and moral weakness without losing sympathy for human frailty. Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813, remains her most widely recognised novel, celebrated for Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, its brilliant comic scenes, and its lasting place in classic fiction, literary romance, Regency fiction, and the history of women writers.

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A fully annotated scholarly edition of Austen's remarkable writings between the ages of eleven and seventeen.