Lady Susan - Jane Austen

I consider Austen to be the best that has ever been (in English, at least), so having read the six novels I suppose it is inevitable that I should turn to the juvenilia. This brief epistolary tale is fun, with the scheming title character causing havoc in genteel Regency society. The crucial ironic narrative voice is not present, bypassing the essence of her great books, but an early understanding of human foibles is evident and the prose is already impeccable.