Lady Susan The Watsons

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486841717

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Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons by Jane Austen Pdf

This volume presents three of Jane Austen's smaller works, treating readers to the author's timeless observations on life and love in nineteenth-century England. In Lady Susan, a beautiful and flirtatious widow seeks an advantageous second marriage for herself while attempting to push her daughter into a dismal match. Through a series of crafty maneuvers, Susan pursues her schemes by filling her calendar with invitations for extended visits with unsuspecting relatives and acquaintances. Characters are revealed and suspense builds as the plot unfolds through a series of letters. The beloved author also left behind two tantalizing unfinished novels. The Watsons takes place in a familiar domestic milieu, in which a spirited heroine finds her marriage opportunities narrowed by poverty and pride. Sanditon ventures into new territory amid hypochondriacs and speculators at a seaside resort. More than literary curiosities, these stories are worthy of reading for pleasure as well as for study.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141907901

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Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen Pdf

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

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780198835899

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Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon by Jane Austen Pdf

'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.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547755449

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The Watsons by Jane Austen Pdf

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.

Author : Charlotte Bronte
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141194028

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Tales of Angria by Charlotte Bronte Pdf

In 1834, Charlotte Brontë and her brother Branwell created the imaginary kingdom of Angria in a series of tiny handmade books. Continuing their saga some years later, the five 'novelettes' in this volume were written by Charlotte when she was in her early twenties, and depict a aristocratic beau monde in witty, racy and ironic language. She creates an exotic, scandalous atmosphere of intrigue and destructive passions, with a cast ranging from the ageing rake Northangerland and his Byronic son-in-law Zamorna, King of Angria, to Mary Percy, Zamorna's lovesick wife, and Charles Townshend, the cynical, gossipy narrator. Together the tales provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and creative processes of the young writer who was to become one of the world's great novelists.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086796299

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Lady Susan ; The Watsons by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 140769488X

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Lady Susan the Watsons by Jane Austen Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486846774

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Lady Susan, Sanditon and The Watsons by Jane Austen Pdf

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.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020555082

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Lady Susan, The Watsons by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184022696X

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Lady Susan and Other Works by Jane Austen Pdf

With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juvenilia show Austen developing her own sense of narrative form whilst parodying popular kinds of fiction of her day. Lady Susan is a wickedly funny epistolary novel about a captivating but unscrupulous widow seeking to snare husbands for her daughter and herself. The Watsons explores themes of family relationships, the marriage market, and attitudes to rank, which became the hallmarks of her major novels. In Sanditon, Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort. These novels are here joined by shorter fictions that survive in Austen's manuscripts, including critically acclaimed works like Catharine, Love and Freindship [sic], and The History of England.

Author : James Edward Austen-Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:24011676

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Lady Susan by James Edward Austen-Leigh Pdf

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1377614913

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Lady Susan, the Watsons by Jane Austen Pdf

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Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015004799279

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Lady Susan. The Watsons. With a memoir by J.E. Austen Leigh by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : Austen Jane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0259745111

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Lady Susan and the Watsons by Austen Jane Pdf

Author : James Edward Austen-Leigh
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1377193845

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Lady Susan: The Watsons; by James Edward Austen-Leigh Pdf

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