The Beautifull Cassandra: A Novel in Twelve Chapters

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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

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.

"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 * "The Beautifull Cassandra and other youthful writings, though 'disparaging[ly]' counted as Austen's 'juvenilia', are anything but juvenile. This edition makes the case that these writings deserve their place, without minimization or dismissal, within the Austen canon."---Megan Quinn, BARS Review