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Original Title:	Catharine and Other Writings
ISBN:	0192835211 (ISBN13: 9780192835215)
Edition Language:	English

Catharine and Other Writings

Jane Austen

Paperback | Pages: 372 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 682 Users | 47 Reviews

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Title	:	Catharine and Other Writings
Author	:	Jane Austen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	August 13th 1998 by Oxford University Press (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. European Literature. British Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Regency. Literature

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Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, and filled three notebooks with her fiction. Her earliest work reflects her interest in the novel as a genre; in brilliant short pieces she plays with plots, stock characters, diction, and style, developing a sense of form at a remarkably early age. The characters of these stories have a jaunty and never-failing devotion to themselves. They perpetually lie, cheat, steal - and occasionally commit murder. Throughout these short or unfinished pieces, Austen exhibits her sense of the preposterous in life and fiction with tough-mindedness and robust humour. In her later published fiction, Austen had learned to take demands for propriety seriously, reining in whatever might be thought boisterous or coarse. Here we see Jane Austen without her inhibitions. In addition to prose fiction and prayers, this collection also contains many of Jane Austen's poems, written to amuse or console friends, and rarely reprinted. Texts throughout are based on manuscripts, including the three notebooks, affording a distinct edition with a number of new readings.

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I was quite bored with this initially . Austen began writing when she was VERY young, by all accounts, and many of these pieces are just that -- juvenilia -- without much nuance, as you might expect from a child. Nevertheless it is evident already that at a young age Austen had a keen sense of irony and what is more, a very acute sense of the forms that narratives can take. One sees her writing mature; volume the third is of course the most interesting, in particular Catherine, which I think is

[First read: 22nd January, 2011 for University: 3 stars.][Re-read: 31st October, 2015. Upgraded to 4-stars.]A collection of short stories, plays, prayers and poetry by Jane Austen from when she was very young. So very different to anything she had written and had published later on in her life, the juvenalia is full of circumstances that are not found in her novels, including murder and characters being much more outspoken. This is the Regulated Hatred of Austen, but more profound and outspoken,

If you're a Jane Austen super fan, this is required reading. If you're not, it's most definitely skip-able. I'm a huge Jane Austen fan, and decided to reread all of her books, watch the movie versions, and definitively rank them. I'd never read this before, so while it wasn't a re-read, it seemed like an important thing to read as part of this project. And, from the perspective of seeing how Jane Austen's writing grew and changed, it was fascinating. But it's definitely juvenilia--Austen is

It was interesting to discover Jane Austen's mostly juvenile works - the Verses and prayes are dated on a later date. A few I've read before but I didn't have any memory of these works. I didn't LOVE LOVE any of the stories but I had some favourites and then many which were only good or slightly dull. Therefore I can only give 3 stars overall.My favourites were:Frederic and Elfrida - I honestly cant believe what I've just read. What a short novel from Jane Austen. Its so over the top but so

Austen juvenilia. Quite delightful. As I've said before, we see how Jane wrote before she had to please publishers.

All I can say is WOW. I didn't know Jane had it in her! She's got a scorching sense of humor like nothing I've ever read from her before. I disagree with the editors on half of everything they say though; my biggeset argument is their insistance that Jane subdued her novels from this style of writing to please the audiences of the 19th century. I think if anything Jane just plain grew up, and her writing was bound to mature along with her. She also intended her work to be published and therefor

The Juvenilia is a great deal of fun, with outrageously self-centred heroines capable of anything from blithely insulting their best friends in the name of candour, to contracting illicit liaisons, to raising armies, and committing the occasional murder. Austen seems to take great delight in playing with and skewering the novelistic conventions of the day. But it is all done with a light, surprisingly confident touch (for such a young person), and never feels malicious. The lighter poems were