| Title | : | Lady Susan |
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| Author | : | Jane Austen, Laurelle Westaway, David Thorn, Susan McCarthy, Melissa Leventon, Bobbie Frohman, Alcazar AudioWorks & A Full Cast |
| Release | : | 2005-02-01 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Classics |
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| 1 | Lady Susan | Jane Austen, Laurelle Westaway, David Thorn, Susan McCarthy, Melissa Leventon, Bobbie Frohman, Alcazar AudioWorks & A Full Cast |
| 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.” |
