how smart practice can cultivate selflessness
this large-format illustrated work explores the evolution
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a story that haunts you' HEATHER CRITCHLOW 'Intriguing
Childhood Writings PG25 how smart practice can cultivateIn her earliest writings, a precocious, alarmingly assured Jane Austen views the adult world with wide, clear eyes, cheekily amused at the emotions, pomposity, intrigues and bustle of family and friends. Composed between the ages of eleven and seventeen, they reveal a child's excitement in language and its imaginative possibilities. Most pieces are ebullient and anarchic; many are surreal, displaying gluttony, drunkenness, matricide, theft and excess,