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Love and Friendship
by
Jane Austen
This collection of the early works of Jane Austen uniquely displays the emerging talent of a brilliant and observant young woman. Completed before Austen was fifteen, the works are astonishing in their maturity. Blending the exuberance of youth with the sharp wit and devastating social criticism of her later novels, Love and Friendship is a collection not to be missed.
Kindle Edition, 64 pages
Published
March 17th 2006
by Public Domain Books
(first published 1922)
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This collection of Jane Austen's juvenilia incudes the titular story, "Lesley Castle" (both of which are experiments in the epistolary novel form), "The History of England", "First Act of a Comedy" and various fictional letters.
All of the works in the collection are worth reading. "Love and Freindship", with its multiple deaths, illegitimacy and fainting fits, is a very silly satire on the sensibility evident in novels of the period. "Lesley Castle" is rather more confusing because of its mult...more
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I'm reading Love and Friendship: "Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint—" I finally discover the source of this quote.
After the first three or four chapters (written as a series of letters), I thought this was rather immature. It read like something a kid would write, or perhaps one of Jo March's plays. But, as I kept reading, it dawned on me how clever Austen was at such a young age. This is so over the top, in a wickedly funny way. It has an extremely high body count, and everyone o...more
After the first three or four chapters (written as a series of letters), I thought this was rather immature. It read like something a kid would write, or perhaps one of Jo March's plays. But, as I kept reading, it dawned on me how clever Austen was at such a young age. This is so over the top, in a wickedly funny way. It has an extremely high body count, and everyone o...more
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I'm sad to say this might be my favorite Austen. I love P&P and S&S, but this bit of juvenalia is a scream. 14 year old Austen parodies the sentimental novels of the time quite deftly. My friend Jean and I loved this book so much in grad school we would sign cards to each other "love and freindship (sic)." Before I walked down the aisle at my wedding Jean stuck her head in the door and said "don't faint." (This is the book with the famous quote "run mad if you chuse, but do not faint.")
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Jane Austen's juvenilia. The first of them written at age 14. The sharp eye for what's really happening, the ear for dialog, the unfailing BS meter, the wit that goes to the bone, the rapier-edged turns of phrase, the snobs, the buccaneers, the fortune-hunting jilters, even the names that will reappear attached to some of the most memorable characters in Eng lit--Dashwood, Annesley, Crawford, Willoughby. You can glimpse the incipient Lady Catherine, Lydia Bennett, Mrs. John Dashwood, lots of fun...more
In order to enjoy this book, you have to know a few things. First, Jane Austen wrote this compilation of short stories between the age of 11-18 to entertain her family. The main stories were written when Jane was 14-15 years old. Moreover, the "Laura" story was written as a parody of the romantic notions of the time. I say this b/c when I started the book, I found the characters to be silly, foolish, overly-emotional, overly-dramatic nitwits. I couldn't believe this was Jane Austen, so I did som...more
I love Jane Austen, and, as an odd coincidence, I currently happen to study in Bath (mostly because no other uni wanted me). And here in Bath, they make a big point of the fact that this is where Jane Austen lived for a portion of her life. That means, of course, that her novels can be found everywhere, that there is a whole museum dedicated to her, and that there is Regency memorabilia offered in nearly every souvenir shop. I don't get it, since she didn't particularly like the city, but I most...more
Now I have at last completed all of the works of Jane Austen. I wish I'd know she had written these at 14-15 before I read it. That would put it in a little better perspective. I did find it to be downright hilarious throughout, and I burst out laughing out loud while listening to it many times. There were also transitions that were hard to catch listening, so I often had to go back and look at the text later to see what I'd missed. The most developed piece of work were the letters from Laura to...more
Ainda não tinha lido este livro. Julguei, erradamente, que aqui encontraria a história "Lady Susan", mas não, e creio que em português essa história não foi traduzida, pelo menos aqui em Portugal.
Amor e Amizade foi escrito por Jane Austen aos 15 anos de idade. Divide-se em duas novelas epistolares (Amor e Amizade e As Três Irmãs) e cinco contos em forma de carta.
Neste livro notamos já a enorme capacidade de observação e crítica de Jane Austen e reparamos a forma pré-existente de muitas das perso...more
Amor e Amizade foi escrito por Jane Austen aos 15 anos de idade. Divide-se em duas novelas epistolares (Amor e Amizade e As Três Irmãs) e cinco contos em forma de carta.
Neste livro notamos já a enorme capacidade de observação e crítica de Jane Austen e reparamos a forma pré-existente de muitas das perso...more
I could complete this book only because it was written by Jane Austen. It was written at a very young age. Its really interesting to read the early works of celebrated authors. The story is funny in many parts. The frequent swooning of young ladies which proved fatal to one of them is hilarious. 'Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!' was the advice of a friend on her death bed!.
The novel is critical of the usual romantic novels where the female lead frequently and conviniently fain...more
The novel is critical of the usual romantic novels where the female lead frequently and conviniently fain...more
Love and Friendship was the Juvenilia of Jane Austen, which I thought was an immense let down compared to the rest of her novels. If I'm being perfectly honest the only reason I even finished the book was because it was written by her. If it had been by anyone else I don't think that I would have been able to get through it. Admittedly though it was exceedingly interesting to see the growth that Austen's writing underwent, both in style and plot.
I don't think that Austen was ready to write Per...more
I don't think that Austen was ready to write Per...more
The title's spelled wrong! (It's Freindship as fourteen year old Jane spelled it.) Juvenilia, epistolary form, and a satire of Gothic romances, this book is priceless for the Austen fan.
"Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint --"
"Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint --"
Jane Austen's classics are interesting and enjoyable - her juvenilia is no less so. Love and Friendship is a mish-mash of short stories, epistolary exchanges, and historical summaries. While some of the writing does feel more immature than Austen's classics, her teenage satire is still amusing and spot-on. Most of the book is written as letters from female characters - the way Austen satirizes their conversations about death, life, inheritance, love, marriage, and friendship is clever and hilari...more
This short collection of musings by Jane Austen is kind of jumbled. It's a mixed bag of short notes dashed off to friends and relatives and ideas for stories being written down and played with. It's kind of interesting to see her thought process, and you'll see some familiar names that were later attached to other characters in her finished novels.
She was quite young when she wrote some of these; as young as fifteen, I believe. It's hard to believe that some of these laughably far-fetched and me...more
She was quite young when she wrote some of these; as young as fifteen, I believe. It's hard to believe that some of these laughably far-fetched and me...more
Jane Austen wrote this when she was 15. It shows a little bit because she keeps repeating the same joke. That joke? An entirely vapid young heroine, bent only on romanticism and sentimentality, demands that everyone she knows faint and well-up and generally carry on over the smallest matter. Those who don't are shunned, regardless of their virtue.
But the joke is really funny. And this is a great parody of sentimental fiction.
(I read this outloud with Megan, which was really fun.)
"Sophia was rath...more
But the joke is really funny. And this is a great parody of sentimental fiction.
(I read this outloud with Megan, which was really fun.)
"Sophia was rath...more
Silly, yes. Juvenile, yes. But also laugh-out-loud funny and a wonderful glimpse into the development of one of the world's most beloved authors. The flaws in these little gems can easily be forgiven when one considers that they were penned by a teenager, probably for her own amusement. I feel sure that Miss Austen would faint dead away if she knew that these stories were being read by a modern audience and compared to her classic novels. But they're a delight that no Jane Austen fan will want t...more
(The last word in the title should be "Freindship" actually.) The story takes all sorts of crazy turns, as if the young author's restlessness and intoxication with invention were showing through. It was certainly fun to experience how fearlessly she would dispatch characters left and right as if on a whim. If her writing career didn't progress any further than this nobody would give a second thought to this bit of fluff, but it serves as a useful starting place to see the development of Austen's...more
'At M——. we arrived in a few hours; and on sending in our names were immediately admitted to Sophia, the Wife of Edward's freind. After having been deprived during the course of 3 weeks of a real freind (for such I term your Mother) imagine my transports at beholding one, most truly worthy of the Name. Sophia was rather above the middle size; most elegantly formed. A soft languor spread over her lovely features, but increased their Beauty—. It was the Charectarestic of her Mind—. She was all sen...more
Relato que Jane Susten escribió con sólo 14 añitos. Probablemente sólo para diversión de su familia, sin pensar nunca en su publicación. Efectivamente es sólo un divertimento. Pero tan ingenioso y bien escrito que podemos ya ver a la Jane Austen que escribió las grandes novelas. Es sólo una parodia de los tópicos y los lugares comunes de las novelas sentimentales, pero muy inteligente. Es una parodia con toda las de la ley; esto quiere decir que es totalmente inverosímil y cae en lo grotesco. Pe...more
Jul 20, 2010
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Recommends it for:
Jane Austen/Classics lovers
Book Name: Amor e Amizade
Author/s: Jane Austen
Language Portuguese
Original Title: Love and Friendship
Publisher, year: Europa América 2006
Page total: 119
Date Read: July 19-20
Genre/s: Classics, Romance, Short Stories, Fiction
First line of Book:"How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my daughter a regular detail of the misfortunes and adventures of your life, have you said 'No, my friend never will I comply with your requests till I may be no longer in danger of again ex...more
Author/s: Jane Austen
Language Portuguese
Original Title: Love and Friendship
Publisher, year: Europa América 2006
Page total: 119
Date Read: July 19-20
Genre/s: Classics, Romance, Short Stories, Fiction
First line of Book:"How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my daughter a regular detail of the misfortunes and adventures of your life, have you said 'No, my friend never will I comply with your requests till I may be no longer in danger of again ex...more
Oh, now, this is a wicked little piece of work! Written when Austen was not yet 15, this epistolary novella is the most skewering and cynical bit of the gray author I have witnessed. Even more blatant than Lady Susan in its assault upon a frivolous and appalling letter writer. Austen was clearly well-read and aware of the foibles of society at a very young age; her ability to skewer slyly came later, for here the rapier is rendering Swiss cheese. Nevertheless, fun reading.
Deixei-me conquistar pela sinopse, que me prometia relações entre mulheres e homens, confusões de amor e amizade, relatados por Austen e, porém, muito actuais. De seguida fascinou-me a forma como as histórias eram contadas pela via da cartas trocadas entre os diferentes intervenientes. E depois cansou-me, cansou-me pelas intrigas vitorianas que sempre me cansarem, pelas intrigas e pela similitude das histórias, conto após conto.
Não sei se me deixarei conquistar assim facilmente por outro livro d...more
Não sei se me deixarei conquistar assim facilmente por outro livro d...more
I was barely amused.
The absurdness of the epistolary story she wrote at 14; well I keep telling myself, she was really young. For a person who is barely a teenager writing this, ok, she writes satire well.
But not much of a plot. I had the feeling it was the sort of writing you write to annoy your older sister who has a boyfriend, and you are making fun of your cousins and such at what their grown up activities (and reactions...like fainting) are in a farce.
The absurdness of the epistolary story she wrote at 14; well I keep telling myself, she was really young. For a person who is barely a teenager writing this, ok, she writes satire well.
But not much of a plot. I had the feeling it was the sort of writing you write to annoy your older sister who has a boyfriend, and you are making fun of your cousins and such at what their grown up activities (and reactions...like fainting) are in a farce.
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This collection of short stories, letters and other scraps was written by Jane Austen before she was 15. It certainly lacks the skill of her known published works, and in fact is rife with weird spelling and grammar, but knowing that going into it I found the melodramatic over-the-top young voice rather humerus. Some of the scraps at the end were tedious, but there's still some definite entertainment value in this.
Oct 22, 2010
Steph
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Recommends it for:
Anyone who loves Jane Austen
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There didn't seem to be much of a point to this book, though I don't think Jane ever expected it to be published. I've noticed that all but the 1 or 2 main characters of each of her novels are complete assholes. However, I've only read L&F, P&P and am currently reading S&S, so maybe this is not a true pattern in her writting. I'll know better once I've read them all I suppose.
This book had been sitting on my Kindle for ages, and since it was such a short read I decided to give it a whirl. I was intrigued that Jane Austen had written this book prior to age 15. It's not very polished, as a result, but it was fascinating and really funny! I found myself wishing the individual stories were a bit longer and had more character development. I enjoyed the first set of letters, most.
These are letters that were written when Jane was a young girl in her teenage years. They were compiled and tell a bit of a story between two friends. I could have lived without reading this one, but wanting to complete everything she is written, I am glad I pursued it. The spelling had not been edited and the letters were somewhat incomplete.
Liked reading this. For those who've seen the movie version of Mansfield Park: in it Fanny writes stories, these stories are actually Jane Austen's earlier stories which are collected in this book. The stories were rather funny, Austen uses a very satirical voice in them. However, the last additions to the book are very short and unlinked and therefore, these were less interesting.
This book, or partial book, is in letter form. The story itself, as you can surmise from the letters, is not your typical Jane Austen fare. It's a strange story of an unapproved marriage, friends going to prison, etc. I'm a true blue Jane Austen fan, but this is definitely different and don't know that I would recommend it.
Although I only gave this book 2 stars, I enjoyed reading these pieces by Jane Austen, all of which were written before she was 15 years old. They show the seeds of the great author that is to come. One that especially amused me was one that was so definitely written by a young teen that it made me chuckle.
Initially I was quite confused and found it hard to believe that this little work was really from Jane Austen. It's sort of a tale of unfortunate events, brought on by the strangely intense heroin. It's a farce, and I think it was (perhaps) a writing exercise capturing the consequences of extreme folly.
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Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.
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