Name: Sanditon
Rating: 3.5 (35 reviews)
ISBN: 9781843911845

Jane Austen

A young country woman visits a fashionable seaside resort and gains insight into the complexities of human nature.

Sanditon

Helen 

Set in 19th-century England, this engrossing novel satirizes the pretentiousness and duplicity in relationships. Austen's death did not allow her to complete this entertaining piece and it was later finished by another writer.

Wilde

More of a social commentary than a novel, but interesting nonetheless.

Another Lady

Jane Austen’s last work, now a PBS limited series adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies. Sanditon—an eleven-chapter fragment left at Jane Austen’s death completed by an Austen devotee and novelist— is a charming addition to Austen’s novels on England’s privileged classes and the deception, snobbery, and unexpected romances that occur in their world. When Charlotte Heywood accepts an invitation to visit the newly fashionable seaside resort of Sanditon, she is introduced to a full range of polite society, from reigning local dowager Lady Denham to her impoverished ward Clara, and from the handsome, feckless Sidney Parker to his amusing, if hypochondriac, sisters. A heroine whose clear-sighted commens sense is often at war with romance, Charlotte cannot help observing around her both folly and passion in many guises. But can the levelheaded Charlotte herself resist the desires of the heart?

Austen's Last Novel

sariya

Megan Lowe

A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn Written 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.

A stunning new Clothbound Classics edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation this autumn Written 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 - and encounters the intriguingly handsome Sidney Parker. This edition also includes the early epistolary novel Lady Susan and the delightful fragment The Watsons.

Erin Darlyn

Erica Darcy

Vilandra

Kate Riordan

In the vein of Downton Abbey, Jane Austen's beloved but unfinished masterpiece-often considered her most modern and exciting novel-gets a spectacular second act in this tie-in to a major new limited television series. Written only months before Austen's death in 1817, Sanditon tells the story of the joyously impulsive, spirited and unconventional Charlotte Heywood and her spiky relationship with the humorous, charming (and slightly wild!) Sidney Parker. When a chance accident transports her from her rural hometown of Willingden to the would-be coastal resort of the eponymous title, it exposes Charlotte to the intrigues and dalliances of a seaside town on the make, and the characters whose fortunes depend on its commercial success. The twists and turns of the plot, which takes viewers from the West Indies to the rotting alleys of London, exposes the hidden agendas of each character and sees Charlotte discover herself... and ultimately find love.

madison

Eloise

Edizione integrale Traduzione di Daniela Paladini Trasformare la tranquilla cittadina di Sanditon in una stazione balneare alla moda: è questo il sogno di Mr Parker, imprenditore entusiasta e determinato. Charlotte, figlia di un proprietario terriero della zona, è l’eroina di questo romanzo: è tentata dall’idea di Mr Parker ma al tempo stesso comprende le ragioni del padre, restio al grande cambiamento. Sidney Parker è invece il personaggio maschile positivo, interessato al nuovo ma senza l’eccesso caricaturale del fratello. Sarà lui l’uomo giusto per Charlotte? Il manoscritto di Sanditon fu abbandonato da Jane Austen il 18 marzo 1817, esattamente quattro mesi prima della morte. Era già malata da un anno, ma questo testo non reca tracce di dolore o pessimismo e, sebbene incompiuto, è un chiaro frutto del genio comico che da sempre attraversa la sua vena narrativa.Jane Austennacque a Steventon (Hampshire) nel 1775. Condusse una vita tranquilla, tra gli affetti familiari, a Bath e poi a Chawton, sempre nell’Hampshire. Si spense nel 1817 a Winchester. Di Jane Austen la Newton Compton ha pubblicato Mansfield Park, Ragione e sentimento, Persuasione, Orgoglio e pregiudizio, L’abbazia di Northanger, Emma, Lady Susan – I Watson – Sanditon e il volume unico Tutti i romanzi.

erica

Anne Telscombe

In a completed version of Jane Austen's unfinished manuscript, a young country woman visits a fashionable seaside resort and gains insight into the complexities of human nature

Sanditon

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