Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.7
EAN num: 9781843911159
ISBN number: 1843911159
Label: Hesperus Press
Manufacturer: Hesperus Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 112
Printing Date: March 01, 2005
Publishing house: Hesperus Press
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This inspired novella, with its outrageous cast of superficial characters, brilliantly showcases Jane Austen's comic genius. Presented here with A History of England and Catharine. As Miss Margaret Lesley and Miss Charlotte Lutterell divulge their innermost secrets through a series of letters, each reveals where her true priorities lie—if a bridegroom is fatally wounded the night before his wedding, the very first concern must inexorably be for the luxurious food that will be laid to waste. As one plot gives way to the next, and as the heroines exchange wisdom on adultery, elopement, divorce, and remarriage, they increasingly fall prey to the merciless and lambasting sword of Jane Austen’s wit. Author of the masterpieces Pride and Prejudice and Emma, Jane Austen is one of the world’s best-loved novelists.
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Jane Austen's early work can never seem truly great to those readers who know her more mature novels, and that will be the case with Lesley Castle. Yet it is by no means to be treated with scorn. Lesley Castle is a delicious and amusing comedy presented to us as a series of letters written between two worldly and at times very cynical correspondents. In using this epistolary form the young Austen is imitating the works of the eighteenth Century masters (Richardson particularly comes to mind) and more than rivaling them. For what is most unusual in Austen is the authentic 'voice' of the upper class women she is describing. They stand before us, revealed in their letters, utterly convincing as examples of closely observed humanity. Richardson's women, though charming in their way, never had such energy.
Reading this collection it's hard not to look for the ways her writing would develop later, into a more assured style. Yet it is here that we see how Austen honed those skills that make her mature novels' conversations so pleasing, so arch, so comic.
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