Love and Freindship by Jane Austen

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  • Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love," which neatly undercuts the title.Written in epistolary form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out dreadfully for the female characters.In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels.Summary revised from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel. Music from Schubert's Fantasy in C Major, at musopen.org.
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Episodes
  • 3 Letters 14 – 15

    3 Letters 14 – 15
    Dec 26 2023
    19 mins
  • 2 Letters 11 – 13

    2 Letters 11 – 13
    Dec 26 2023
    23 mins
  • 1 Letters 01

    1 Letters 01
    Dec 26 2023
    28 mins

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