Classic fiction

Love and Freindship

by Jane Austen

512 pages · First published 2016

In a series of wonderfully dramatic letters to the daughter of her closest friend, Laura recounts a life filled with impulsive romance, secret marriages, improbable coincidences, and enough fainting spells to exhaust even the most devoted heroine. When she meets the equally sentimental Sophia, the two women form an extravagant friendship built on their shared belief that powerful feelings are far more important than ordinary good sense. Unfortunately, their devotion to romance and sensibility leads them through a succession of absurd misfortunes, unexpected deaths, and increasingly ridiculous adventures. Written when Jane Austen was still a teenager, this delightfully mischievous satire pokes fun at the overwrought heroines and improbable plots of eighteenth-century sentimental fiction. Short, sharp, and gloriously silly, *Love and Freindship* reveals the wit and comic instincts that would later make Austen one of literature's most beloved authors.