I am a woefully underread Janite, as it turns out. Sure, I've read the big six - her half-dozen beautifully written novels - many times. But in all of the years I've been reading Austen, I had never ventured into her other, sadly scarce, works. Laziness, maybe. Haughtiness, maybe. I'd read the best,...
This book demonstrates the pure entertainment value of a good book. I had a great time reading it! A short story from Jane Austen, and written as a series of letters, this is great fun. Lady Susan is a recent widow with very few morals or redeeming qualities other than her beauty and her ability t...
This is a very strange book. Unlike other Austen novels, the main character is really quite a terrible person. The ending is appropriate, but comes unconvincingly quickly. In addition, the epistolary form makes it a little difficult to follow. Lady Susan is definitely not as good as Austen's other w...
If you loved reading Dangerous Liasons--and I certainly did--then you'll probably also enjoy this far shorter, marginally less cruel epistolary novel of scheming, gossiping, and duplicity.
Lady Susan is the earliest of Austen's novels, and in my opinion the weakest. (Really a novella, it's only 23,021 words.) It was written in 1794 when Austen was still in her teens. I found it hard to get into at first. Unlike her other novels, this is an epistolary novel told almost entirely in 41 l...
OK so this story was in told by letters to each person. The story was a bit interesting and kind of boring, but there were some parts that peeved me and I was getting so mad at Lady Susan, for saying horrible things about her daughter. The Story is like mentioned center around a woman named Lady S...
bookshelves: autumn-2013, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, epistolatory-diary-blog, published-1791, radio-4, fradio Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from September 28 to 29, 2013 BBC BLURB: A little known, very early Jane Austen work, performed on the radio for the first time.A beauti...
Despite my aversion to most epistolary novels, Lady Susan actually benefited from the style. The story told through letters approach applied several different layers of unreliable narration and created very unique Austen characters. If this novel were more fleshed out and developed, I could have RE...
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this excellent audiobook version of Jane Austen's epistolary novel narrated by Harriet Walter, Kim Hicks and Carole Boyd. It's so short that I was able to complete it by listening to it at the gym and then on my way to work and home again in the course of a single d...
An interesting read. Exciting, as I had previously thought that i'd read all of Austen's work. Though this was quite the departure from her usual MC. As this was supposed to have been one of her early works, I'm glad she took the turn she did before she started publishing.
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