A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing finalwork - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumnWritten 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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241433713Number of pages: 208Weight: 157 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
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