Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons
Title | Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Austen |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-04-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486846776 |
Three of Austen's smaller works, worthy of reading for both pleasure and study: Lady Susan, in which a widow seeks an advantageous second marriage; and the unfinished novels The Watsons and Sandition.
Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon
Title | Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Austen |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2003-07-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141907908 |
Collecting 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. These 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. Margaret 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. Jane 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. If you enjoyed Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon, you may like Charlotte Brontë's Tales of Angria, also available in Penguin Classics. '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
Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon
Title | Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Austen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0198835892 |
'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 on the 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 invention and push out beyond what we expect to find in a novel by Jane Austen. This edition collects together all Austen's unpublished adult fiction, poetry, and related writings, written in her late teens, in her late twenties, and in the year she died, aged forty-one. They contribute more than a dash of discomfort to our modern image of the romantic novelist and reveal Jane Austen's development as a writer.
Sanditon
Title | Sanditon PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Austen |
Publisher | Dutton Adult |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780460000048 |
The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan
Title | The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Austen |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Pub |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2012-09-03 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781479241798 |
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics-wikipedia
Lady Susan, The Watsons
Title | Lady Susan, The Watsons PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Austen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Watsons
Title | The Watsons PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Austen |
Publisher | e-artnow |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2020-04-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8026899504 |
Mr. Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. Living near the Watsons are the Osbornes, a great titled family. Emma attracts some notice from the boorish and awkward young Lord Osborne, while one of her sisters pursues Lord Osborne's arrogant, social-climbing friend, Tom Musgrave. Emma is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her sisters, but gets involved in it whether she likes it or not.