The Beautifull Cassandra (Little Black C

A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings -featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, womenbreaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting offtheir mothers' fingers... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebratethe huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books fromaround the world and across many centuries. They take us from aballoon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan,from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russiansteppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic andintimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that haveshaped the lives of millions.