The Visit, Ode to Pity and Other Short Works

Jane Austen, one of the nation’s most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across the brilliantly funny short tales she wrote when young.

This collection pulls together the short sketches, drama, poems and flash epistolary tales Austen wrote in her youth. Taken together, the author’s warm sense of humour and literary limbering up shines through in this great and memorable bundle of snatched moments of fun.

Author Biography

Jane Austen (1775–1817) is one of the best known English novelists of all time. She is best remembered today for her novels critiquing the upper classes, in particular Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Like most female writers of her era, Austen published her works anonymously, and it was only after her death that her name was set to her works.