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Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon - Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings (Paperback)
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Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon - Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Loot Price R176
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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 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edition collects together all Austen's unpublished adult fiction,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.
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