Love and Friendship
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These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen's mature fiction. Written when she was only in her teens, they are by turns amusing, acerbic and occasionally downright silly. 'Love and Friendship' and 'Lesley Castle' provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time. 'A History of England' supplies us with a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are 'The Three Sisters', 'Catharine', the series of vignettes known as 'A Collection of Letters' and 'Lady Susan', an epistolary story which was recently adapted for the cinema. Taken together, these pieces display all the wry humour, shrewd observation and satirical insight of Emma or Pride and Prejudice.
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Too much victorian drama for my taste.
Demasiado drama victoriano para mi gusto.
Though the correspondence format could be promising, we never see the answers from the addressee. Only the tale told by the sender.
A pesar de que el formato de correspondencia de la narración pudiera ser prometedor, nunca vemos las respuestas del destinatario. Unicamente el relato contado por el remitente.
The whole story - though short- drags over the same thing: a young lady (whose name I already forgot) that, according to her, made the mistake of getting married at a very short age and ruined her life. She proceeds to tell how that happened and to detail all the affectations to her nerves and sensibility that were suffered in the process.
Toda la historia -aunque corta- se alarga sobre lo mismo: una joven (cuyo nombre ya olvidé) que, de acuerdo con ella, cometió el error de casarse a muy corta edad y arruinó su vida. Ella procede entonces a contar cómo es que eso sucedió y a detallar todas las afectaciones a sus nervios y a su sensibilidad que sufrió en el proceso.
She's not an agreeable character at all. I understand that this is one of Jane Austen's early works written as a satire, however I didn't enjoy it in the least.
No es un personaje para nada agradable. Tengo entendido que este es uno de los primeros trabajos de Jane Austen escrito como una sátira, sin embargo no lo disfruté para nada.
