Sanditon
$16.31
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2019
Summary
‘no person could be really well … without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’
In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explores the mysterious and startling transformations that a stay by the sea can work on individuals and relationships. Sanditon is a fictitious place on England’s south coast and the obsession of local landowner Mr Thomas Parker. He means to transform this humble fishing village into a fa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198840831 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0198840837 |
| Author: | Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 127mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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A terrific introduction by Kathryn Sutherland, Professor of English Literature at St Anne’s College, goes further in explaining the rage of the seaside during Austen’s life time, but also how it allows Austen here to conjure up a cast of colourful, uncertain characters as tangy as vinegary fish and chips. * Richard Lofthouse, Quad *Light and funny, it’s Austen’s most experimental and poignant work. * Angela Wintle, Sussex Life *
About The Author
Jane Austen
Edited by Kathryn Sutherland.
Kathryn Sutherland is the editor of Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections and Jane Austen’s Teenage Writings for the Oxford World’s Classics. She has created a digitial edition of Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts (2012), the print edition published by OUP in 2017. She is the author of Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (OUP, 2005).
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