'She has many rare and charming qualities but Sobriety is not one of them.'A selection of
Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder drunkenness perjury theft
poisoning women breaking out of prison men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers'
fingers... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little
Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from
around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian
London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and
the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage poems epic and intimate essays
satirical and inspirational and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Jane Austen
(1775-1817). Austen's works available in Penguin Classics are Emma Lady Susan The Watsons and
Sanditon Love and Freindship and Other Youthful Writings Mansfield Park Northanger Abbey
Persuasion Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
