Sanditon

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Charlotte Heywood is privileged to accompany Mr and Mrs Parker to their home in Sanditon &mdash not least because, they assure her, it is soon to become the fashionable epicentre o f society summers. Finding the town all but deserted, she is party to the machinations of her socially mobile hosts in their attempts to gather a respectable crowd. As Sanditon fills with visitors, Austen assembles a classic cast of characters possessing varying degrees of absurdity and sense. The last of Austen&rsquos fictional works, written in the year before her death when she was gravely ill, Sanditon affords a glimpse of the ultimate creative powers and preoccupations of one of the greatest figures in English literature. Show more