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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
This is an edition that contains Sandition, The Watsons, and Lady Susan. Two of the three works featured are unfinished and what a shame. I enjoyed Sandition more so than The Watsons, but both were setting up to be fantastic stories with the wit and charm of characters we expect from Austin. The real winner here in my opinion is Lady Susan. What a great story! It is written as a series of letters and the family drama certainly keeps things interesting. This story is a hidden gem.
Lady Susan is the epistolary & was interesting, but not my favorite. A different turn from the third person storytelling we see in Austen's famous novels, it was entirely appropriate for this story. Lady Susan's letters to her friends and those from others in her social circle were fun to read - everyone's take on her behavior, that is. Lady Susan wasn't really well-behaved; a notorious flirt, newly widowed, trying to marry her daughter off while engaging a married man and another man herself...
The Watsons was my favorite. Emma Watson finds herself basically orphaned & out of an inheritance after an aunt marries and sends her home to her poor family. She goes home and it's expected (by the reader) that the wealthy suitor will ask for her hand in marriage; she actually prefers his friend. I found myself completely into this story and disappointed that it ended (& unfinished at that). It reads the most like her other novels.
Sanditon was the last thing Austen wrote before her death & wasn't finished because of that. This is the most different from anything she's ever written & it's really too bad it wasn't finished because it could've gone in any direction. A story of a new seaside resort with a cast of characters that includes hypochondriacs, a West Indian heiress, a speculator... It would've been great to see where it ended up.
If you're an Austen fan - read it. The only thing you'll find disappointing is that they aren't completed.
The Watsons was my favorite. Emma Watson finds herself basically orphaned & out of an inheritance after an aunt marries and sends her home to her poor family. She goes home and it's expected (by the reader) that the wealthy suitor will ask for her hand in marriage; she actually prefers his friend. I found myself completely into this story and disappointed that it ended (& unfinished at that). It reads the most like her other novels.
Sanditon was the last thing Austen wrote before her death & wasn't finished because of that. This is the most different from anything she's ever written & it's really too bad it wasn't finished because it could've gone in any direction. A story of a new seaside resort with a cast of characters that includes hypochondriacs, a West Indian heiress, a speculator... It would've been great to see where it ended up.
If you're an Austen fan - read it. The only thing you'll find disappointing is that they aren't completed.
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
LADY SUSAN
I haven't ever read a novel in this style before, at least of the 18th century classics, so it was a new experience for me. It was certainly a fun read, with me always wondering what would happen next and what the real truth was. I loved how it ended, with Lady Susan having the last laugh, in a sense anyway. And I can say for certain that Lady Susan is the naughtiest Austen leading lady I've encountered to date. :)
THE WATSONS
This is probably the one I really wish had been finished, 'cause I think as the intro to this collection states that it could've been yet another Austen classic. I would have been very curious to see Emma encounter her favourite again, and just to see how it all played out in writing, and not just in the quick summary we were given in the notes based on how Austen herself claimed it would have gone if she'd ever finished it.
SANDITON
This was another unusual read, and as the intro states it's different from anything else Austen ever wrote. It was sadly the last writing she did, and she died before it could be completed. I thought it was a verging-on-absurd (in a good way), laughable read, and I have no doubt it would have been fun to read on. I would have liked to see more of Sidney, and at the novel's end he's basically only just arrived, but as the intro says, there's really no way we can tell how this story might've ended, because it wasn't predictable like Austen's other works might be said to be.
All in all, I definitely enjoyed this read, but now I have the strange (not so strange?) urge to go and read P&P again.
I haven't ever read a novel in this style before, at least of the 18th century classics, so it was a new experience for me. It was certainly a fun read, with me always wondering what would happen next and what the real truth was. I loved how it ended, with Lady Susan having the last laugh, in a sense anyway. And I can say for certain that Lady Susan is the naughtiest Austen leading lady I've encountered to date. :)
THE WATSONS
This is probably the one I really wish had been finished, 'cause I think as the intro to this collection states that it could've been yet another Austen classic. I would have been very curious to see Emma encounter her favourite again, and just to see how it all played out in writing, and not just in the quick summary we were given in the notes based on how Austen herself claimed it would have gone if she'd ever finished it.
SANDITON
This was another unusual read, and as the intro states it's different from anything else Austen ever wrote. It was sadly the last writing she did, and she died before it could be completed. I thought it was a verging-on-absurd (in a good way), laughable read, and I have no doubt it would have been fun to read on. I would have liked to see more of Sidney, and at the novel's end he's basically only just arrived, but as the intro says, there's really no way we can tell how this story might've ended, because it wasn't predictable like Austen's other works might be said to be.
All in all, I definitely enjoyed this read, but now I have the strange (not so strange?) urge to go and read P&P again.
funny
lighthearted
I can't really rate this since it contains three separate stories, two of which are unfinished. I love Lady Susan but am not terribly excited by The Watsons nor Sanditon. Excellent additional material, especially the introduction, timeline of Austen's life and contemporary historical events, and helpful endnotes.
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love Jane Austen, but I did not like this type of style for her stories.
informative
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Boring. I don't care about rich people. At all.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Classism
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
En esta obra y con su magnifica pluma de Jane Austen, y haciendo uso de la estructura epistolar, describe en esta obra la sociedad inglesa del siglo XIX. Es muy buen obra para acercarse por primera vez a la autora.
Dos novelas de Jane Austen en las que retratan la sociedad de su época y que dejan con ganas de conocer el final de Sandition.
Dos novelas de Jane Austen en las que retratan la sociedad de su época y que dejan con ganas de conocer el final de Sandition.