murderbydeath 's review for:

Love and Friendship: And Other Youthful Writings by Jane Austen

5.0

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Not at all what I expected - having read almost all of Jane Austen's adult writing, I knew she was capable of a sly, subtle humour, but her juvenilia is not at all subtle, reading more like Monty Python skits than staid regency entertainment. I'm still gobsmacked by the premeditated malice she gives Lady Susan too; not at all what I expected, but a brilliant surprise.

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