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Austen, Jane

Εκδότης Penguin , ISBN 9780141395111

Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth century in which she grew up - dark, grotesque, often surprisingly bawdy, and a far cry from the polished, sparkling novels of manners for which she became famous.

Drunken heroines, babies who bite off their mother's fingers, and a letter-writer who has murdered her whole family all feature in these very funny pieces. This edition includes all of Austen's juvenilia, including her 'History of England' - written by 'a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant Historian' - and the novella 'Lady Susan', in which the anti-heroine schemes and cheats her way through high society. Taken together, they offer a fascinating - and often surprising - insight into the early Austen.

This major new edition is the first time Austen's juvenilia has appeared in Penguin Classics. Edited by Professor Christine Alexander, it includes an introduction, notes and other useful editorial materials. Jane Austen, born in 1775, wrote many burlesques, parodies and other stories in her youth, including a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan.

The novels published in her lifetime include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16, and was published, together with Northanger Abbey,posthumously in 1818. Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817.

Christine Alexander is Scientia Professor of English at the University of New South Wales and general editor of the Juvenilia Press. She has published extensively on the Brontes and has co-edited the first book on literary juvenilia, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (2005). '

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Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense. Jane Austen's earliest writing dates from when she was just eleven years, and already shows the hallmarks of her mature work: wit, acute insight into human folly, and a preoccupation with manners, morals and money. But it is also a product of the eighteenth century in which she grew up - dark, grotesque, often surprisingly bawdy, and a far cry from the polished, sparkling novels of manners for which she became famous.

Drunken heroines, babies who bite off their mother's fingers, and a letter-writer who has murdered her whole family all feature in these very funny pieces. This edition includes all of Austen's juvenilia, including her 'History of England' - written by 'a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant Historian' - and the novella 'Lady Susan', in which the anti-heroine schemes and cheats her way through high society. Taken together, they offer a fascinating - and often surprising - insight into the early Austen.

This major new edition is the first time Austen's juvenilia has appeared in Penguin Classics. Edited by Professor Christine Alexander, it includes an introduction, notes and other useful editorial materials. Jane Austen, born in 1775, wrote many burlesques, parodies and other stories in her youth, including a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan.

The novels published in her lifetime include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16, and was published, together with Northanger Abbey,posthumously in 1818. Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817.

Christine Alexander is Scientia Professor of English at the University of New South Wales and general editor of the Juvenilia Press. She has published extensively on the Brontes and has co-edited the first book on literary juvenilia, The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (2005). '

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Austen, Jane
  • Eκδότης Penguin
  • ISBN 9780141395111
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100058706
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2015
  • Σελίδες 0
  • Διαστάσεις
  • Βάρος 350 gr

Austen, Jane

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Η Τζέιν Ώστεν γεννήθηκε το 1775 στο Στίβεντον του Χαμσάιρ, και ήταν η έβδομη από τα οχτώ παιδιά της οικογένειας. Ο πατέρας της, ο αιδεσιμότατος Τζορτζ Ώστιν, ήταν πολυμαθής και καλλιεργημένος, και η Τζέιν μορφώθηκε κυρίως στο σπίτι. Διάβαζε ασταμάτητα από παιδί, ιδιαίτερα τα έργα του Φίλντινγκ, του Στερν, του Ρίτσαρντσον και του Σκοτ. Άρχισε να γράφει από πολύ μικρή ηλικία. 'Εγραψε το "Αγάπη και φιλία" όταν ήταν μόλις δεκατεσσάρων ετών. Ακολούθησε η "Ιστορία της Αγγλίας" στα δεκάξι και το "Μια συλλογή επιστολών" στα δεκαεπτά. Μετά τον θάνατο του πατέρα της, το 1805, αυτή και η μητέρα της μετακόμισαν στο Σαουθάμπτον, για να εγκατασταθούν τελικά στο Τσότον του Χαμσάιρ το 1809, όπου και έγραψε τα μεγαλύτερα μυθιστορήματά της. Αν και η ίδια έζησε μια πολύ ήσυχη ζωή -δεν παντρεύτηκε ποτέ και σπάνια έβγαινε από το σπίτι- τα έργα της δείχνουν την εκπληκτική της παρατηρητικότητα. Μόνο τέσσερα μυθιστορήματα εκδόθηκαν όσο ζούσε "Λογική και ευαισθησία" (1811), "Περηφάνια και προκατάληψη" (1813), "Μάνσφιλντ Παρκ" (1814) και "Έμμα" (1816) -και όλα εκδόθηκαν ανώνυμα. Σε μια σπάνια έξοδό της από το σπίτι αρρώστησε και πέθανε από τη νόσο του Άντισον το 1817. Δύο ακόμη μυθιστορήματα, το "Πειθώ" και το "Νορθάνγκερ Άμπει" εκδόθηκαν μετά το θάνατό της, το 1818. Το "Σάντιτον", το μυθιστόρημα που έγραφε όταν πέθανε, εκδόθηκε το 1925.

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