Later Manuscripts : The Collector's Edition

Name: Later Manuscripts : The Collector's Edition
Brand: Jane Austen
SKU: 9781009432818
Price: 15.67 GBP
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by Jane Austen

Title:

Author:

Jane Austen

Series (if any):

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

272 pages, Worked examples or Exercises

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

ISBN-13:

9781009432818

EAN:

9781009432818

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

528

Dimensions (mm):

210 x 133 x 17

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£15.67

2 copies in stock

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Description

Gathering together all the unpublished mature work of Jane Austen, this volume comprises poems, a novella, unfinished novels, literary spoofs and a series of letters giving advice on how to write fiction. Written between her childhood tales and published novels, 'Lady Susan' is the most complete portrait of clever, charming malice Austen ever penned. With its special bleak atmosphere, 'The Watsons' is a powerful satire of claustrophobic middle-class life, while 'Sanditon', the work she was writing when she died, is an experimental novel exchanging Austen's usual country-house setting for a speculative seaside resort. Along with the poems (the last written just three days before her death), the letters and comic pieces, the novel fragments are beguiling on their own; they also provide a fascinating companion to the published novels. Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.