The Pursuit of Happiness (Early and Unpublished Prose)

Jane Austen's most famous novels belong to the golden fund of world literature. However, her juvenilia, which the literary scholar Richard Jenkyns described as “wild” and reminiscent of Monty Python sketches, are also very interesting. We believe that is invitation enough to read them – and besides, most of them are being published in Czech for the very first time in this book. In addition to the longer sketch of the novel Catharine, or the Bower, you will be delighted by fourteen texts that, even in a very short space, do not deny the author's mastery and her famous irony. Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia have also not yet been published in Czech – and given the beauty of the fairy-tale story The Search After Happiness, which she wrote at the tender age of thirteen, it is truly surprising. We also include three moving texts dedicated to the memory of her sisters Emily and Anne and the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, under which the trio of sisters published their first works. Translated from the English originals by Kristýna Julinová (Jane Austen) and Josef Pepson Snětivý (Charlotte Brontë).
Book Details:
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Year of Publication: 0
ISBN: 978-80-874-7011-4
Number of pages: 200