{"product_id":"lady-susan-the-watsons-and-sanditon-unfinished-fictions-and-other-writings","title":"Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon: Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'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.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Watsons\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cem\u003eSanditon\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Watsons\u003c\/em\u003e shares the disturbed life of a Chekhov short story, \u003cem\u003eSanditon\u003c\/em\u003e'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition collects together all Austen's unpublished adult fiction, poetry, and related writings, written in her late teens, in her late twenties, and in the year she died, aged forty-one.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.","brand":"Kathryn Sutherland, Jane Austen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47596292964588,"sku":"9780198835899","price":8.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780198835899.jpg?v=1777919554","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/lady-susan-the-watsons-and-sanditon-unfinished-fictions-and-other-writings","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}