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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.
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- Title
- Sanditon
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jane Austen
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0241433711
- ISBN13
- 9780241433713
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Women, Classics, Short Stories, British Literature, Gifts for grandma, 19th century, Historical Romance, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Regency, Meeting People, Dating, Pink October, Jane Austen
- Original title
- Sanditon
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- 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.