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Sanditon

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Written in the last months of Austen’s life, ‘Sanditon’ features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement. It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, who is transported by a chance accident from her rural hometown to Sanditon, where she is exposed to the intrigues and dalliances of a small town determined to reinvent itself – and encounters the intriguingly handsome Sidney Parker. This edition also includes the early epistolary novel ‘Lady Susan’ and the delightful fragment ‘The Watsons’.

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A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen’s tantalizing final work – set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn

Written in the last months of Austen’s life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly established seaside resort, and shows the author contemplating a changing society with scepticism and amusement. It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, who is transported by a chance accident from her rural hometown to Sanditon, where she is exposed to the intrigues and dalliances of a small town determined to reinvent itself – and encounters the intriguingly handsome Sidney Parker.

This edition also includes the early epistolary novel Lady Susan and the delightful fragment The Watsons.

Additional information

Weight 0.157 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.2 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

195

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.7 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K