Lady Susan
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3.8 • 131 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classic edition.
Written when she was just 19, this early Jane Austen novella is a juicy, wicked tale starring a heroine more deliciously conniving than any of her others. The widowed Lady Susan Vernon is breathtakingly beautiful and irresistibly charming. On the surface, at least. When she sets out to secure an advantageous new husband, she reveals the true extent of her scheming.
Ensnaring one rich suitor and toying with another, Lady Susan might just get everything she wants—if she can keep her mask from slipping. With this fascinating early antiheroine at its heart,Lady Susan shows Austen already dissecting the social and economic games of Regency life with impeccable, caustic wit.
Customer Reviews
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Was a slow start, had trouble following the letter style chapters at first but after 7 or 8 it really started to flow.
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Lady Susan
I have long since loved Jane Austin so was pleased to read something from her I was surprisingly unacquainted with. I was kept interested enough to read it in one sitting although was surprised yet gradually pleased that the whole book was entirely of made up of correspondence between some of the characters, it made for a good idea as it allowed things to be said through personal correspondence that they would not say perhaps in company. One has to round out the characters in ones own imagination to a certain degree although you get a general sense of them, the characters are not as fully developed as in Miss Austins other books. I did though find it quite amusing, Lady Susan is quite a character. It is definitely worth a read and is certainly of merit but look at it more for amusement as one is not entirely captivated and attached as one is with some of her other wonderful books.
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