The youngest of seven children, Jane was born to George and Cassandra Austen, a Kentish family, in December 1775. Her early childhood was influenced by her father's parsonage and close companionship with elder sister Cassandra. After schooling at Oxford, and on recovering from a bout of long illness, Ms Austen began writing, initially as an entertaining pre-occupation; and gave up formal educat…
Popular Illustrated Classics is a series of masterpieces from world literature. It includes the works of English authors such as William and Charles Dickens Shakespeare as well as authors such as Chekhov and Maupassant in translation. Realising the importance of line drawings in enhancing the intimacy of the reading experience, it has been conceived as an illustrated series. For the first ti…
Popular Illustrated Classics is a series of masterpieces from world literature. It includes the works of English authors such as William Realising the importance of line drawings in enhancing the intimacy of the reading experience, it has been conceived as an illustrated series. For the first time ever, a series has attempted to modestly delineate the tender , dramatic and Shakespeare and Ch…