Teenage writings

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Teenage writings

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Author :   Jane Austen
Publisher :   Oxford University Press
Published :   20/04/2017
ISBN :   9780198737452
Format :   Paperback
Pages :   lv, 336
Size (mm) :   197x129x20.2
Weight (g) :   276

The young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she soon began to imitate and parody. Three volumes of her vivacious teenage writing survive. Devices and themes which appear subtly in her later... Read more
 
The young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she soon began to imitate and parody. Three volumes of her vivacious teenage writing survive. Devices and themes which appear subtly in her later fiction run riot here: drunkenness, brawling, sexual misdemeanour, theft, and even murder.