Sanditon and Other Stories

Synopsis

Readers of jane austen's six great novels are left hungering for more, and more there is: the marvelous unpublished manuscripts she left behind, collected here. Sanditon might have been austen's greatest novel had she lived to finish it. Its subject matter astonishes: here is austen observing the birth pangs of the culture of commerce, as her country-bred heroine, a foolish baronet, a family of hypochondriacs, and a mysterious west indian heiress collide against the background hum of real-estate development at a seaside resort.