Volume the Second In Her Own Hand : American edition : First printing

Austen, Jane

ISBN 10: 0789212005 / ISBN 13: 9780789212009

Edité par Abbeville Press, New York, U.S.A., 2014

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American edition, first printing (full print run includes '1'). No jacket as issued. Introduction by Kathryn Sutherland. Decorated boards with red binding to spine with white lettering are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, the odd rub/bump to edges, odd very small mark and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. {ages are slightly tanned. Very occasional small mark to page edges, tops and bottoms. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Volume the Second In Her Own Hand : American edition : First printing
• Éditeur: Abbeville Press, New York, U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0789212005
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780789212009
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Forever immortalized as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first "books" as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers--Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third--these brilliant little collections include the stories, playlets, verses, and moral fragments she wrote likely from the ages of twelve to eighteen.

As a young author, Jane Austen delighted in language, employing it with great humor and surprising skill. She was adept at parodying the popular stories of her day and entertained her readers with outrageous plotlines and characters. Kathryn Sutherland places Austen's earliest works in context and explains how she mimicked even the style and manner in which this contemporary popular fiction was presented and arranged on the page.

Volume the Second, housed at the British Library, contains Austen's famous "The History of England," illustrated with watercolor portraits by her sister Cassandra, as well as "Love and Friendship," "Lesley Castle," and several letters and fragments she calls "scraps". This notebook was compiled between June 1790 and June 1793, from ages fourteen to seventeen.

None of her six famous novels survives in complete manuscript form. This is a unique opportunity to own likenesses of Jane Austen's notebooks as originally written--in her own hand.

Learn more about the other books in the In Her Own Hand series: Volume the First and Volume the Third. All three volumes are also available in the In Her Own Hand boxed set.

À propos des auteurs

Jane Austen (1775--1817) is one of the most beloved novelists in the English language. Her novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion have left readers with a literary legacy hard to match by any author before or since.

Kathryn Sutherland is Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood and the editor of the Digital Edition of Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts.