Lady Susan |
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Author:
| Austen, Jane |
Performed by:
| Westaway, Laurelle Thorn, David McCarthy, Susan Leventon, Melissa Frohman, Bobbie |
Instrumental Soloist:
| Thorn, David |
Read by:
| Full Cast Production Staff, (RE |
Produced by:
| Alcazar AudioWorks Staff, |
ISBN: | 978-1-4708-9290-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
Publisher: | Alcazar AudioWorks
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Book Format: | CD-Audio |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description
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."