Jane Austen is one of England`s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature`s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. This selection of Jane Austen`s earliest writing remained unpublished during her lifetime. The title story was written before she was 15, while the other stories were completed before she was 17.