Love and Friendship

These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen`s mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly. `Love and Friendship` and `Lesley Castle` provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. `A History of England` supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are `The Three Sisters`, `Catharine`, the series of vignettes known as `A Collection of Letters` and `Lady Susan`, an epistolary story which was recently adapted for the cinema. Taken together, these pieces display all the wry humour, shrewd observation and satirical insight of Emma or Pride and Prejudice.