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Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon

Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings

Pocket
Engelsk
Oxford World's Classics
Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon
Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon
  • Forfatter: Jane Austen
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 368
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Oxford World's Classics
  • EAN: 9780198835899
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
  • Bidragsyter: Austen, Jane
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''I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others-of resigning my own judgement in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.''The unfinished fictions collected here are the novels and other writing that Jane Austen did not publish. The protagonist of the earliest story is Lady Susan, a sexual predator and a brilliant and manipulative sociopath. The Watsons, a tale of riches to rags, is set in a village deep in mud and misery where the Watson sisters waste away, day after dull day, waiting for the suitors who never appear. Sanditon, the novel interrupted by the author''s death, is a topical satire onthe niche marketing campaign waged by investors in the latest seaside resort, the fictional Sanditon, situated on England''s over-supplied south coast. If The Watsons shares the disturbed life of a Chekhov short story, Sanditon''s cast of eccentrics anticipates the zany world of Dickens. Experimental and sharp-elbowed,all three probe new areas of in