The Beautiful Cassandra

'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Jane Austen (1775-1817). Austen's works available in Penguin Classics are Emma, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon, Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jane Austen
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 26.02.2015
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9780141397078
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139707-8
• Numero di pagine: 64
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 11.2 x 16.3 x 0.6 cm
• Serie: Little Black Classics; Penguin Little Black Classics > 33; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Little Black Classics
• Categorie: Literature, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction, Wodehouse, Literary fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, Novels, popular books, fiction books, books fiction, good books, classic; wodehouse; literary fiction; fiction; good books; novels; popular books; fiction books; literature; books fiction