With three vital and less familiar works by one of the most important novelists in the English language, this book is a must-have for Austen fans. This book title, Sanditon and Other Stories, ISBN: 9780679447191, by Jane Austen, Peter Washington, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (April 16. And The Watsons is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine, Emma, finds her marriage opportunities restricted by poverty and pride. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with several men. This volume includes Sanditon, as well as two other lesser-known works, Lady Susan and The Watsons. Though unfinished at the time of her death, it is a key work for readers of Jane Austen, and all the moreso with a major upcoming TV adaptation. In the story of Charlotte Heywood, a new arrival, Austen she contemplated a changing society with a mixture of skepticism and amusement, and notably crafted her only character of color in the mixed-race heiress Miss Lambe. Most of the pieces in this collection are very funny indeed. In particular, they reveal a precociously brilliant genius with a talent for broad comedy and even farce. In the final months of Jane Austen's life, she began work on a new novel about social drama in the small seaside town of Sanditon, once a small fishing village and now a bustling spa town. Sanditon: & Other Stories (Collins Classics) available to buy online at . A dazzling collection of early stories and later fragments which throw an entirely new light on Jane Austen. In time for the highly-awaited TV series, a new edition of Jane Austen's delightful final work, set in a newly established seaside resort with a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators
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