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Title: Love and Freindship and Other Early Works
Author: Jane Austen
Narrator: Noel Badrian
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-07-17
Publisher: Paperless
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
"Love and Freindship" [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of 11 until she was 18, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. They contain, among other works, "Love and Freindship", written when she was 14, and "The History of England", written when she was 15.
Members Reviews:
A couple diamonds in the rough, but mostly rubbish
I am a big Jane Austen fan, but some of this was actually painful to read. This is a collection of works she never finished, and honestly, if I were her, I'd be embarrassed to have anyone reading most of what's in this.
The first part is the worst, the second is improved but not great. Her history of England is amusing, but hardly grounded in fact - this was the most enjoyable part of the collection.
After there is a disconnected collection of fictional letters (one of which is of interest for I feel it formed the idea of Sense and Sensibility to her) & lastly another incomplete book.
All the incomplete works are epistolary novels. Her history is complete.
The diverment of the history & the singular letter mentioned are the only things I consider worth the time of reading. Otherwise, please pass this by & read one of her complete works.
Good for Austen Completists, But Consider a Different Edition
This is an early Jane Austen work, written when she was a teenager and unpublished during her lifetime. It's not a great story, but is a good read for serious Austen fans - you can see her experimenting with the ideas and techniques that she would later use to better effect. The book is a romance told in a series of letters, but mocks many of the conventions of romances.
My main complaint about this particular edition is the typesetting, which is done with unappealing and difficult to read block print. If you're interested, I would recommend that you start with the (free) Kindle version, or look atLove and Freindship: And Other Early Works of Jane Austen (Classic Reprint), which looks like it was typeset more appealingly.
For Austen Fans Only
Early works from Jane Austen. Some of the stories are funny, but in that dry, British kind of funny. Others were just annoying, like an Aunt going on-and-on about how put out they were about what to do with wedding dinner after the groom died just before the wedding. Not the best, but again, it's early works, so definitely doesn't have the same polish as many of her other stories.
A Naughty Austen!
That Jane, she is such a naughty writer. For those of you who think her the height of Victorian respectability and prudence, delve into the tale where she shows her wickedly funny side.
This is a collection of letters, rather than a traditional novel. She wrote this in notebooks prior to becoming an adult and it reads like the 'rough drafts' it probably was. Actually most of the book reads like a really funny Saturday Night Live skit.
It is a story told through letters about a young couple in love. Naturally, one of them dies and the other is left to carry on in a cruel and wicked world. Sound sad? Not an all! The entire thing is a parody of the sentimentality that was so popular in the novels of the time. A tongue in cheek classic that was delight from the first page.
Well then.
I wasn't sure what to expect but I read it. Just a bunch of letters from different people in life.
