Sanditon and Other Stories

Resumen del libro

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

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. 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. 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.

This volume includes Sanditon, as well as two other lesser-known works, Lady Susan and The Watsons. The early epistolary novel Lady Susan depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with several men. And The Watsons is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine, Emma, finds her marriage opportunities restricted by poverty and pride.

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P Jane Austen nació en la rectoría de Steventon, al noreste de Hampshire, el 16 de diciembre de 1775. Séptima hija del reverendo George Austen y de Cassandra Leigh, Jane Austen fue una destacada novelista británica que, gracias a su gran habilidad para retratar a la sociedad en la que vivió, es considerada como uno de los clásicos de la literatura inglesa. Las novelas de Jane Austen son un reflejo de la nobleza rural inglesa de la época; gracias a su ironía e ingenio y a lo atractivo de su narrativa, se mantienen como un referente de la literatura universal.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Su obra ha sido adaptada al cine, al teatro y a la televisión en numerosas ocasiones. Durante la década de 1790 escribió los primeros borradores de sus exitosas novelas x{0026}lt;I Sentido y sensibilidadx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La abadía de Northangerx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Orgullo y prejuiciox{0026}lt;/I , inspiradas en el color localde Kent y Bath. Entre 1810 y 1817 verían la luz x{0026}lt;I Emmax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Mansfield Parkx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Persuasiónx{0026}lt;/I . Austen falleció en 1817 en Winchester.x{0026}lt;/P