Lady Susan - Jane Austen

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Auteur(s) : Jane Austen

Editeur : Read & Co. Classics

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 92

Expédition : 128

Dimensions : 21.6 x 14.0 x 0.6

ISBN : 9781528706209

Résumé :

Austen's epistolary novel reveals the complexities of social manoeuvring and the sharp wit of its unforgettable protagonist.

Presented as a series of letters, this short novel tells the story of the beautiful yet notorious Lady Susan and her schemes to find an advantageous second marriage for herself, while also forcing her daughter into a loveless match. Follow a brilliant and manipulative widow determined to secure advantageous marriages for herself and her daughter.

Written in 1794 and first published in 1871, enjoy this masterful novel that explores the mores and manners of English society. Not to be missed by fans of Austen's seminal work and lovers of English literature.

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Biographie:
Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England, in 1775, the daughter of a country clergyman. Raised in a literate and observant family, she began writing at an early age and developed a sharp comic intelligence that would become one of the defining voices of English fiction. Her novels are celebrated for their wit, irony, social precision, and close attention to courtship, family expectation, class, money, manners, and moral judgment. Working within the domestic and social world available to her, Austen transformed apparently limited settings-drawing rooms, villages, assemblies, visits, letters, and family conversations-into some of the most enduring studies of human character in literature.Austen's major novels include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. In these works she helped shape the modern novel of manners, combining romantic comedy with psychological insight and rigorous social observation. Her heroines are memorable not because they are flawless, but because they must learn to see themselves and others more clearly. In Emma, Austen created one of her most complex central figures: a heroine whose intelligence, charm, privilege, and confidence become both her strengths and her chief sources of error.Although Austen published anonymously during her lifetime, her reputation grew steadily after her death in 1817, and she is now regarded as one of the central novelists in the English language. Her work remains essential to readers and students of classic English literature, Regency fiction, women's writing, romantic comedy, literary realism, and nineteenth-century social fiction. More than two centuries after publication, Austen's novels continue to be read, taught, adapted, and loved because they combine elegance of style with unsparing insight into pride, self-deception, affection, and the difficult art of knowing one's own heart....

Sommaire:

Austen's epistolary novel reveals the complexities of social manoeuvring and the sharp wit of its unforgettable protagonist.

Presented as a series of letters, this short novel tells the story of the beautiful yet notorious Lady Susan and her schemes to find an advantageous second marriage for herself, while also forcing her daughter into a loveless match. Follow a brilliant and manipulative widow determined to secure advantageous marriages for herself and her daughter.

Written in 1794 and first published in 1871, enjoy this masterful novel that explores the mores and manners of English society. Not to be missed by fans of Austen's seminal work and lovers of English literature.