Love and Freindship (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Jane Austen wrote the delightfully silly Love and Freindship and Other Early Works in her teenage years to entertain her family. With its endearingly misspelled title, the collection of brief experimental sketches reveals the making of one of the best-loved authors of British literature.

In "Love and Freindship" and "Lesley Castle," Austen parodies the sentimental and Gothic novels of love at first...