ximenaayala_'s review
4.0
it was such a pleasure and joy to read all of these stories!! her writing is as wonderful as her novels. really recommend it!!
clellman's review
4.0
Young JA is so clever, sarcastic, and hilarious. One particular passage from Love and Freindship was so so funny. How does she do it? Some stories were better than others, to be fair. Lady Susan was also good, and, as suggested in the intro, reminiscent of Liaisons dangereuses (epistolary style, but also the theme of artfulness/dissimulation esp in women (Lady Susan).
trudy4088d's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
kindleandilluminate's review against another edition
4.0
Charming, hilarious, witty; a number of amusing prototypes for Jane Austen's later characters and plots (Lady Greville is a delightful ur-Catherine de Bourgh, for one).
bookshelvesandtealeaves's review
Honestly a very interesting insight into Jane Austen’s youthful mind and her growth as a writer but I don’t really have an interest in continuing
mon_ique's review against another edition
Little Austen definitely has talent, but those characters are just so silly! And annoying! And silly! Fainting all over the place, wrongly judging and butting themselves into other people's business that shouldn't be in (mostly Love and Friendship. Lesley Castle was cute, but also hard to get through although it is shorter). The fainting t really annoyed me, you can tell these weren't really polished books, because things that happened sometimes did not have a continued action (like some one died, you don't know how they got buried, etc.). And fainting so much that you died? What a difference between these feeble-minded woman and Elizabeth in P&P!
cayleigh's review
This is the literary equivalent of listening to Debut when folklore exists.
cam_omile's review against another edition
3.0
substantially worse than anything else dear jane wrote (for obvious reasons), yet still delightful because jane. also, contains a rather overwhelming number of epistolary tales.