{"product_id":"2026200015267-secondhand-the-oxford-illustrated-jane-austen-minor-works","title":"The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen: Minor Works","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Jane Austen gifted the world with Pride and Prejudice and Emma, she was already a writer of remarkable wit and invention — and Minor Works, the sixth and final volume of the celebrated Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen series edited by R. W. Chapman, gathers the full breadth of her lesser-known writings into one essential collection. Spanning her juvenilia, unfinished novels, and miscellaneous prose, it chronicles the full arc of her creative imagination — from the riotously comic Love and Freindship and the sardonic History of England to the fragmentary later masterworks The Watsons, Sanditon, and Lady Susan — presenting a writer in vivid, exhilarating development.\n\nChapman's meticulous editorial scholarship illuminates each piece with contextual notes and textual apparatus, making this volume as indispensable to the serious scholar as it is to the devoted Austen enthusiast. These minor works are anything but peripheral; they are the proving ground for the irony, social acuity, and narrative precision that would define one of English literature's most enduring voices. For those who believe they know Jane Austen, this collection promises the thrilling discovery of a writer still becoming herself — and the revelation may surprise even the most ardent admirer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203204128987,"sku":"2026200015267-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/04823c83-fa4e-44e0-8b7a-143e9646de15.png?v=1788145647","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015267-secondhand-the-oxford-illustrated-jane-austen-minor-works","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}