The third and final volume of Jane Austen's juvenilia closes her teenage writing career on its sharpest note yet — including Catharine, or the Bower, her longest and most emotionally mature early work, alongside further burlesques and unfinished sketches that show a writer testing exactly how far she could push a joke before the whole novel collapsed into glorious nonsense.
If you've ever wondered how a future master of irony learned her craft, this is the closest you'll get to watching her rehearse — reckless, hilarious, and unmistakably heading somewhere extraordinary.
