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 (Steventon, 1775 - Winchester, 1817) es una de las figuras más destacadas de la narrativa inglesa. Aunque su nombre era conocido en algunos círculos aristocráticos, sus primeros títulos tuvieron que aparecer de forma anónima. Solo a partir de la publicación póstuma de x{0026}lt;i La abadía de Northangerx{0026}lt;/i y, precisamente, de x{0026}lt;i Persuasiónx{0026}lt;/i (en 1818), su hermano Henry reveló la identidad de la autora de x{0026}lt;i Sentido y sensibilidadx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Orgullo y prejuiciox{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Emmax{0026}lt;/i o x{0026}lt;i Mansfield Parkx{0026}lt;/i . El éxito de su obra responde seguramente a lo que sir Walter Scott llamó el talento más prodigioso que se haya visto para describir los sentimientos y las relaciones sentimentales .x{0026}lt;/p