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Sanditon : with, Lady Susan ; and, The Watsons / Jane Austen.

By: Publication details: London : Penguin English Library, 2019.Description: 195 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780241433713
Contained works:
  • Austen, Jane. Lady Susan
  • Austen, Jane. Watsons
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.7 23
Contents:
Lady Susan -- The Watsons -- Sanditon.
Summary: Written in the last months of Austen's life, "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. It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, who is transported by a chance accident from her rural hometown to Sanditon, where she is exposed to the intrigues and dalliances of a small town determined to reinvent itself -- and encounters the intriguingly-handsome Sidney Parker. This edition also includes the early epistolary novel Lady Susan and the delightful fragment The Watsons.
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This edition first published: 1974.

Lady Susan -- The Watsons -- Sanditon.

Written in the last months of Austen's life, "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. It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, who is transported by a chance accident from her rural hometown to Sanditon, where she is exposed to the intrigues and dalliances of a small town determined to reinvent itself -- and encounters the intriguingly-handsome Sidney Parker. This edition also includes the early epistolary novel Lady Susan and the delightful fragment The Watsons.

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