Jane Austen's last novel broke off before she could finish it, and Sanditon survives as the opening of a comedy about a seaside village trying to turn itself into a resort.
This volume prints that unfinished work together with other shorter pieces, offering a view of Austen away from the six completed novels. The fragment introduces speculators, invalids and enthusiasts of every sort, and its satire is sharper and more openly comic than the tone of her later finished books. The accompanying tales show how she handled character and social observation in briefer forms, which makes the collection useful for study as well as for pleasure.
Handy details:
• Sanditon, the unfinished final novel, printed in full
• Additional shorter works collected in the same volume
• Satire of health resorts, speculation and social climbing
• Around 218 pages, in English
Published by Wilco Publishing House for literature students, collectors of classics and Austen readers at Boipoka.