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Laddar... The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chaptersav Jane Austen
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. {Humour, stand alone} With artwork by [[Leon Steinmetz]] I just finished a Jane Austen novel in ... five minutes! Written when she was twelve years old, it is dedicated (somewhat tongue in cheek) to Miss Austen - her only sister, Cassandra. When Cassandra had attained her 16th year, she was lovely & amiable & chancing to fall in love with an elegant Bonnet ... (not 'Bachelor' as I was expecting). The subtitle of the book is A Novel in Twelve Chapters and it consists of twelve chapters of only a sentence or two each; in fact, the dedication is probably longer than any of them. I can just imagine a cheeky twelve year old girl writing about her sister's imagined (I assume) adventures in London. Although it is considered part of her juvenilia the famous Austen humour is already there. Her father was of noble Birth, being the near relation of the Dutchess of --'s Butler. Gently humourous. However short it is and however young she was, it is classic Austen. Note: this novel contains only this story and is not a compilation with other Austen juvenilia. Each chapter is illustrated with a full page brush and ink sketch by Leon Steinmetz. I love the one at the end, of the maternal hug. 5***** inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
One of Jane Austen's most charming youthful "novels"-in-miniature--presented in a deluxe illustrated edition that will delight all Austen fans Most people think Jane Austen wrote only six novels. Fortunately for us, she wrote several others, though very short ones, while still a young girl. Austen was only twelve or thirteen when she wrote The Beautifull Cassandra, an irreverent and humorous little masterpiece. Weighing in at 465 occasionally misspelled words, it is a complete and perfect novel-in-miniature, made up of a dedication to her older sister Cassandra and twelve chapters, each consisting of a sentence or two. Narrating the slightly criminal adventures of the sixteen-year-old title character, The Beautifull Cassandra gives us Austen's most irrepressible heroine, who, after stealing a hat, leaves her mother's shop to flounce around London, eating ice cream (without paying), taking coach rides (without paying), and encountering handsome young ladies and gentlemen (without speaking)--all to return home hours later with whispered joy: "This is a day well spent." This charming edition features elegant and edgy watercolor drawings by Leon Steinmetz and is edited by leading Austen scholar Claudia L. Johnson. In her illuminating afterword, Johnson calls The Beautifull Cassandra "among the most brilliant and polished" of Austen's youthful writings--a precocious work written for the amusement of her family but already anticipating her mature irony, sense of the absurd, gift for parody, and, above all, stylistic mastery. The result is a marvelous edition of a literary treasure that is sure to delight. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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