Sanditon
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Authors : |
Jane Austen
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Foreword Writer: |
A.C. Grayling |
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Translator: |
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Series: |
Hesperus Classics |
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Publication Date: |
September 2009 |
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ISBN 13: |
9781843911845 |
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ISBN 10: |
1843911841 |
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Page Extent: |
88
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Price: |
£ 7.99
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Overview:
Charlotte Heywood is privileged to accompany Mr and Mrs Parker to their home in Sanditon – not least because, they assure her, it is soon to become the fashionable epicentre of 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, and Austen assembles a classic cast of characters of varying degrees of absurdity of sense.
The last of Austen’s fiction 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.
Additional information:
About the foreword writer:
Author and philosopher A.C. Grayling teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College, and is a Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford. His latest work is The Choice of Hercules (2008).
'Yes, I have heard of Sanditon,' replied Mr Heywood. 'Every five years, one hears of some new place or other starting up by the sea and growing the fashion. How they can half of them be filled is the wonder! Where people can be found with money and time to go to them!'
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