{"product_id":"9780140431025","title":"Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Austen, Jane \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 28\/11\/1974,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780140431025,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men. In contrast, The Watsons is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine Emma Watson finds her marriage opportunities limited by poverty and pride. Written in the last months of Austen's life, the uncompleted novel Sanditon, set in a newly established seaside resort, offers a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators, and shows an author contemplating a the great social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution with a mixture of scepticism and amusement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Drabble's introduction examines these three works in the context of Jane Austen's major novels and her life, and discusses the social background of her fiction. This edition features a new chronology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, Pride and Prejudice, at the age of 22. She was also the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon, you may like Charlotte Brontë's Tales of Angria, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In [Sanditon] she exploits her greatest gifts, her management of dialogue and her skill with monologue. The book feels open and modern ... as vigorous and inventive as her earlier work'Carol Shields\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56505458458997,"sku":"9780140431025","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780140431025.jpg?v=1766267554","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780140431025","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}