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One of Jane Austen’s most charming youthful “novels”-in-miniature―presented in a deluxe illustrated edition that will delight all Austen fans
Most people think Jane Austen wrote only six novels. Fortunately for us, she wrote several others, though very short ones, while still a young girl.
Austen was only twelve or thirteen when she wrote The Beautifull Cassandra, an irreverent and humorous little masterpiece. Weighing in at 465 occasionally misspelled words, it is a complete and perfect novel-in-miniature, made up of a dedication to her older sister Cassandra and twelve chapters, each consisting of a sentence or two.
Narrating the slightly criminal adventures of the sixteen-year-old title character, The Beautifull Cassandra gives us Austen’s most irrepressible heroine, who, after stealing a hat, leaves her mother’s shop to flounce around London, eating ice cream (without paying), taking coach rides (without paying), and encountering handsome young ladies and gentlemen (without speaking)―all to return home hours later with whispered joy: “This is a day well spent.”
This charming edition features elegant and edgy watercolor drawings by Leon Steinmetz and is edited by leading Austen scholar Claudia L. Johnson. In her illuminating afterword, Johnson calls The Beautifull Cassandra “among the most brilliant and polished” of Austen’s youthful writings―a precocious work written for the amusement of her family but already anticipating her mature irony, sense of the absurd, gift for parody, and, above all, stylistic mastery.
The result is a marvelous edition of a literary treasure that is sure to delight.
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Jane Austen would go on to write other novels. Claudia L. Johnson is the Murray Professor of English Literature at Princeton University. Leon Steinmetz is an American artist whose work appears in major museums in the United States and Europe.
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"One of Michael Dirda's Best Books of 2018"
"It’s hard not to laugh at the strong-willed fictional Cassandra and her adventures around London, among them eating six ice creams and refusing to pay for them. Austen fans will find much to love here."---Rumaan Alam, New York Times
"[A] pleasing edition." (Times Literary Supplement)
“This is an absolutely delightful book that had me chuckling all the morning and that will make a terrific gift. Leon Steinmetz’s illustrations are a perfect match for Austen’s narrative, with its fascinating combination of chic economy and audacious buffoonery.”―Deidre Lynch, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History
“This is a wonderful book. Jane Austen’s juvenilia is captivating, Leon Steinmetz’s illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, and Claudia L. Johnson’s afterword is excellent.”―Jenny Davidson, author of Reading Jane Austen
"It’s hard not to laugh at the strong-willed fictional Cassandra and her adventures around London, among them eating six ice creams and refusing to pay for them. Austen fans will find much to love here."---Rumaan Alam, New York Times
"[A] pleasing edition." (Times Literary Supplement)
“This is an absolutely delightful book that had me chuckling all the morning and that will make a terrific gift. Leon Steinmetz’s illustrations are a perfect match for Austen’s narrative, with its fascinating combination of chic economy and audacious buffoonery.”―Deidre Lynch, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History
“This is a wonderful book. Jane Austen’s juvenilia is captivating, Leon Steinmetz’s illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, and Claudia L. Johnson’s afterword is excellent.”―Jenny Davidson, author of Reading Jane Austen
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