The History of England by Jane Austen - this delightful short send-up of English history was written by Austen when she was a teenager, intended for performance for her family. It is a parody of history texts, and ironically delivered by a fiercely biased narrator. It took me probably less than half an hour to read, but provided a great deal of amusement. It was part of a volume entitled Two Histories of England, but as I was really only interested in Austen, I skimmed the introduction, and didn't even bother reading the portion excerpted from Charles Dickens' A Child's History of England. Austen's witty sense of parody and satire is evident even in this early work, which she probably never intended for publication.
By the same author: Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility
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