Sanditon

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Author: Austen, Jane c 1800 to c 1900Published on 5 September 2019 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Penguin English Library' series.Pap erback | 208 pages198 x 131 x 12 | 156g A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - 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. Show more