Sanditon and Other Stories

Name: Sanditon and Other Stories
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 9780679447191-G
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By Jane Austen

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Readers of Jane Austen's six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here. Sanditon might have been Austen's greatest novel had she lived to finish it. Its subject matter astonishes: here is Austen observing the birth pangs of the culture of commerce, as her country-bred heroine, a foolish baronet, a family of hypochondriacs, and a mysterious West Indian heiress collide against the background hum of real-estate development at a seaside resort. The Watsons, begun in 1804 but never completed, tells the story of a young woman who was raised by a rich aunt and who finds herself shipped back to the comparative poverty and social clumsiness of her own family. The novella Lady Susan is a miniature masterpiece, featuring Austen's only villainous protagonist. Lady Susan's subtle, single-minded, and ruthless pursuit of power makes the reader regret that Austen never again wrote a novel with a scheming widow for its heroine. The special joy of this collection lies in Austen's juvenilia-tiny novels, the enchantingly funny Love and Freindship, comic fragments, and a (very) partial history of England-romping miniatures that she wrote in her teens. Their high spirits, hilarity, and control offer delicious proof that Austen was an artist "born, not made."

Product details

Number of Pages:

544

Release Date:

1996-04-16

Publication Date:

1996-04-16

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0679447199

ISBN13:

9780679447191

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

558 g

Height:

136 cm

Width:

212 cm

Thickness:

32 cm

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