Bibliograph

Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon, Jane Austen : edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble

Type

Label

Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon, Jane Austen : edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon

Oclc number

953263689

Responsibility statement

Jane Austen : edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

"These three short works from across Jane Austen's career show her writing in a variety of styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of classes and setting. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with several men. The Watsons is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine finds her marriage opportunities restricted by poverty and pride. Written in the last months of Austen's life, the tantalizing and incomplete novel Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Social background -- Lady Susan -- The Watsons -- Sanditon -- Note on the text -- Notes

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