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4 Formats: CD
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4 Formats: Library CD
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4 Formats: MP3 CD
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4 Formats: Playaway
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ISBN: 9781470892906
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ISBN: 9780786180844
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ISBN: 9780786182060
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ISBN: 9781433271830
Runtime: | 2.95 Hours |
Category: | Fiction/Classics |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Jane Austen’s earliest known serious work, Lady Susan is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction.
Lady Susan, a clever and ruthless widow, determines that her daughter is going to marry a man whom both detest. She sets her own sights on her sister-in-law’s brother, all the while keeping an old affair simmering on the back burner.
But people refuse to play the roles assigned them. In the end, her daughter gets the sister-in-law’s brother, the old affair runs out of steam, and all that is left for Lady Susan is the man intended for her daughter, whom neither can abide.
Told through a series of letters between the characters, the work concludes abruptly with the comment: “this correspondence…could not, to the great detriment of the Post Office revenue, be continued any longer.”
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Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway |
Category: | Fiction/Classics |
Runtime: | 2.95 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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