Flame Tree Collectable Classics

Genres: Classics; Literary Fiction; Regency Romance

Synopsis

From Book :

Unabridged, 8.5" x 11" edition (21.59 x 27.94 cm) with small type (9-point) and three column format on cream paper. Jane Austen had worked on the initial draft as early as 1796 as she was visiting her brother at Goodnestone Park in Kent. She was 20 year old and had her writing skills already sharpen by a first novel, Sense and Sensibility, and polished by years of reading her prose aloud to family and friends. A few months earlier, she had flirted with Thomas Langlois Lefroy, an Irish student visiting her neighbours in Steventon, Hampshire. Living out that love was no option. Writing Pride and Prejudice was one...