Название: Jane Austen's Juvenilia
Автор: Jane Austen
Издательство: LibriVox
Эту книгу озвучил: LibriVox Volunteers
Год выпуска: 2011
Жанр: Epistolary Fiction, General Fiction, Short Stories
Аудио кодек: mp3
Битрейт аудио: 128 kbps
Продолжительность: 05:47:17
Качество: Отличное
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Язык: Английский

Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s

This is a collection of her juvenilia, including the epistolary novels Love and Freindship, Lesley Castle, and Lady Susan, as well as her comic History of England and some shorter pieces.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed. This was the page at which the favourite volume always opened.