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This is a unique edition of Jane Austen's early burlesques; Lesley Castle, inspired novella in letters, is not included in the Penguin edition of her juvenilia, and is presented here alongside A History of England, and Catharine. In it, she presents a series of outrageously superficial characters, brilliantly showcasing her comic genius. 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 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 become prey to the merciless and lambasting sword of Jane Austen's wit. 'Austen, it is safe to say, was some species of genius.' - from the Foreword by Zoe Heller
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At some point in the course of reading these works, you are likely to feel the prickings of a baffled envy. Even as you are absorbing the rhythms of Austen's shapely sentences, the pitch-perfect comedy of her dialogue, the sly elegance of her irony, you will stop and ask, How did a teenager do this? How did she know so much about the particularities and universalities of human folly? Where did she acquire such a wise and confident wit? "One of those fairies who perch upon cradles must have taken her a flight through
the world when she was born, " was Virginia Woolf's suggestion. This may seem a rather twee and unsatisfactory answer. But then, I don't think Woolf meant to offer an explanation so much, as to frankly acknowledge a conundrum. Austen, it is safe to say, was some species of genius. To speak of voyages with fairies, is just another way of reminding us that the mystery of that genius was, and is, irreducible.
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This is a unique edition of Jane Austen's early burlesques; Lesley Castle, inspired novella in letters, is not included in the Penguin edition of her juvenilia, and is presented here alongside A History of England, and Catharine. In it, she presents a series of outrageously superficial characters, brilliantly showcasing her comic genius. 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 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 become prey to the merciless and lambasting sword of Jane Austen's wit. 'Austen, it is safe to say, was some species of genius.' - from the Foreword by Zoe Heller
From the Author
At some point in the course of reading these works, you are likely to feel the prickings of a baffled envy. Even as you are absorbing the rhythms of Austen's shapely sentences, the pitch-perfect comedy of her dialogue, the sly elegance of her irony, you will stop and ask, How did a teenager do this? How did she know so much about the particularities and universalities of human folly? Where did she acquire such a wise and confident wit? "One of those fairies who perch upon cradles must have taken her a flight through
the world when she was born, " was Virginia Woolf's suggestion. This may seem a rather twee and unsatisfactory answer. But then, I don't think Woolf meant to offer an explanation so much, as to frankly acknowledge a conundrum. Austen, it is safe to say, was some species of genius. To speak of voyages with fairies, is just another way of reminding us that the mystery of that genius was, and is, irreducible.
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