Love and Friendship and Other Early Works - By Jane Austen. Love and Friendship (Freindship (sic)) is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. The notebooks still exist – one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the British Museum. They include among others Love and Freindship, written when Jane was fourteen, and The History of England, when she was fifteen. Written in epistolary form, like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family; it was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, "La Comtesse de Feuillide". The instalments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love", which completely undercuts the title. In form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out badly for the female characters. In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels.

During a visit to Bath, Catherine Morland meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, but during a visit to his family home, Northanger Abbey, Catherine discovers a house of nightmarish mystery. Reprint.

A celebration of the life and times of Jane Austen, as revealed in her letters, illuminated by many contemporary illustrations. It aims to bring to life the world she inhabited - the Hampshire countryside and social life in Bath and London.

In The Italian, the beautiful Ellena and her lover, Vivaldi, are tormented and chased by a mysterious cowled figure, while in Austen's Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland plots to expose her dashing host's mysterious past. Original.

Product Description: From the almost dismissive references in Jane Austen's novels, one could be forgiven for thinking that Christmas in Georgian England was a somewhat dismal affair. To the contrary, Miss Austen would have known elaborate house parties and fancy dress balls...read more

Product Description: As in many households in the late eighteenth century, writing verses was a pastime with the Austen family, and the composition of ingenious riddles and charades provided a source of lively entertainment. This volume of verses by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself as well as a selection of work by her mother, her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, her nephew James Edward and other relatives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Emma (1816) is Jane Austen's most characteristic work. Convinced that she understands the world, Emma rules over her invalid father and the small social circle of Highbury with well-meaning tyranny. But she is highly fallible where love is concerned, and her failings there cause many misunderstandings - as well as giving the reader much enjoyment as order is restored...read more

This edition of Jane Austen's 19th-century novel presents the 1816 text along with contemporary critical essays that introduce students to 'Emma' from gender, new historical, Marxist, cultural, and feminist perspectives.

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Product Description: "Lady Susan," with its wicked, beautiful, intelligent and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama in letters. "The Watsons" is a highly delightful story whose vitality and optimism centers on the material prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town...read more

Perhaps the best loved of all English novelists. She addresses the politics, dating and courtship with an incisive intelligence that both foreshadows and outsrips many of the romantic novels of today.

Product Description: Collected here are Jane Austen's three unfinished works; "Sanditon, The Watsons, and Lady Susan". "Sanditon" is the story of the idyllic modern seaside town and its inhabitants. "The Watsons" is the story of Mr. Watson, a widowed clergyman, and his two sons and four daughters...read more

Product Description: I long to be made known to your dear little children, in whose hearts I shall be very eager to secure an interest. I shall soon have need for all my fortitude, as I am on the point of separation from my own daughter.

Product Description: Jane Austen's The Watsons (1871) was written around 1803-1805. It presents the story of Emma Watson's return to her family after a long time away. Facing severe financial problems, the only hope for this family of four daughters and an invalid father is to get the girls married before their father's death...read more

Product Description: Written in 1795, Jane Austen's epistolary novel Lady Susan brims with satire and wit. The recently widowed Lady Susan is beautiful and attractive, yet selfish and manipulative. She flirts atrociously in order to secure a good marriage not only for herself but for her daughter as well...read more

Product Description: Letters of Jane Austen is a compilation of the surviving letters that Jane Austen wrote to her family and friends. Most were written to her elder sister Cassandra. The work gives an amazing glance into Austen's daily life, from her youth to her death...read more

Product Description: Jane Austen's The Watsons (1871) was written around 1803-1805. It presents the story of Emma Watson's return to her family after a long time away. Facing severe financial problems, the only hope for this family of four daughters and an invalid father is to get the girls married before their father's death...read more

Product Description: Jane Austen's The Watsons (1871) was written around 1803-1805. It presents the story of Emma Watson's return to her family after a long time away. Facing severe financial problems, the only hope for this family of four daughters and an invalid father is to get the girls married before their father's death...read more