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Catharine

And Other Writings

Catharine( )
Author: Austen, Jane
Editor: Doody, Margaret Anne
Murray, Douglas
Introduction by: Doody, Margaret Anne
Series title:Oxford World's Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-283521-5
Publication Date:Aug 1998
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $10.95
Book Description:

Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, and filled three notebooks with her fiction. Her earliest work reflects her interest in the novel as a genre; in brilliant short pieces she plays with plots, stock characters, diction, and style, developing a sense of form at a remarkably early age. The characters of these stories have a jaunty and never-failing devotion to themselves. They perpetually lie, cheat, steal - and occasionally commit murder. Throughout these short or unfinished...
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Book Details
Pages:424
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.031 x 7.644 x 0.741 Inches
Book Weight:0.638 Pounds
Author Biography
Austen, Jane (Author)
Jane Austen's life is striking for the contrast between the great works she wrote in secret and the outward appearance of being quite dull and ordinary. Austen was born in the small English town of Steventon in Hampshire, and educated at home by her clergyman father. She was deeply devoted to her family. For a short time, the Austens lived in the resort city of Bath, but when her father died, they returned to Steventon, where Austen lived until her death at the age of 41.

Austen was drawn to literature early, she began writing novels that satirized both the writers and the manners of the 1790's. Her sharp sense of humor and keen eye for the ridiculous in human behavior gave her works lasting appeal. She is at her best in such books as Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), in which she examines and often ridicules the behavior of small groups of middle-class characters. Austen relies heavily on conversations among her characters to reveal their personalities, and at times her novels read almost like plays. Several of them have, in fact, been made into films. She is considered to be one of the most beloved British authors.

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