Lesley Castle (Jane Austen's Juvenilia, #1) (Hesperus Classics)

Name: Lesley Castle
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by Jane Austen

Zoe Heller (Foreword)

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Lesley Castle (Jane Austen's Juvenilia, #1) (Hesperus Classics)

by Jane Austen

Zoe Heller (Foreword)

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

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ISBN13 9781843911159
Publish Date 25 February 2005
Publish Status Out of Stock
Out of Print 22 August 2014
Publish Country GB
Imprint Hesperus Press Ltd

Format Paperback
Pages 112
Language English

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I like the review that says “So you think you are a writer. Read this slim volume and weep.” Austen did this at sixteen, and it’s unpardonably good for any writer, much less someone that young. The one fault of the slim volume is that it is indeed slim.

If I were compiling it, though, I’d give the top billing to her History of England. The sketches, the parody, the rending of garments for Mary Queen of Scots; it’s near perfection.