Jane Austen

Juvenilia

Herausgeber: Sabor, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 574
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780521824200
• ISBN-10: 0521824206
• Artikelnr.: 22562056

Autorenporträt

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist. She wrote many books of romantic fiction about the gentry. Her works made her one of the most famous and beloved writers in English literature. She is one of the great masters of the English novel. Austen's works criticized sentimental novels in the late 18th century, and are part of the change to nineteenth- realism. She wrote about typical people in everyday life. This gave the English novel its first distinctly modern character. Austen's stories are often comic, but they also show how women depended on marriage for social standing and economic security. Her works are also about moral problems. Jane Austen was very modest about her own genius. She once famously described her work as "the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory, on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labor." She had been working on a new novel, Sanditon, but she died before she could finish it. She is now a well known great writer.

Jane Austen, gemalt von ihrer Schwester Cassandra, Ausschnitt

Inhaltsangabe

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.