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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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Book – Faeries (Froud/Lee)

Book – Faeries 
Authors  & illustrators : Brian Froud & Alan Lee
Score: 8/10
Year: 2002 ; 25th anniversary edition for the 1977 original work
Publisher: Pavilion
ISBN 1-86205-558-0
Pages not numbered (216p) 
Language: English 
Size : 21,2X1,3x30,4 CM 

Both Brian Froud and Alan Lee added introductions for this 25th anniversary edition of their 1977 original book, exploring the world of fairies in myth, folk & legends, presenting their combined talents and nearly 200 sketches and drawings, in color or in black & white, of all sizes, in this beautiful art book.

As specified above, it is a rather big book, in soft-cover. 


It is presented as if the world of Fairies and rules about warding off their harmful, dangerous aspects, as well as how to properly thank them for rendered services as if all of it was a real world, with real folk. 

As a reader and viewer, it's not always clear who composed or drew a particular piece, although many can be inferred. 
Fonts vary a lot and include semi-cursive text which appears almost hand-written, which were at times difficult for me to decipher. 

Faeries was enjoyable overall, but I must warn parents as to content (some nudity, some grotesque art, and some horrible descriptions of acts done by fairy-creatures).  
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