Sanditon by Jane Austen [PDF]
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"Sanditon" is the novel Jane Austen was still writing when she died. She drafted eleven chapters in early 1817, then illness stopped her, and the manuscript breaks off in the middle of a scene.
What survives is an opening, not a finished book. Charlotte Heywood arrives in a small seaside village that a local speculator is trying to talk into fashion, and Austen sets out her cast without ever resolving them.
Download the free PDF to read the fragment exactly as Austen left it. She wrote no ending, and the versions that finish the story were written by other people.
Sanditon by Jane Austen
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Information: Sanditon
- Author: Jane Austen.
- Publication Date: Posthumous in 1817
- Main Characters:
- Charlotte Heywood: A smart and observant young woman who visits Sanditon.
- Tom Parker: The enthusiastic and visionary entrepreneur who aims to turn Sanditon into a prosperous seaside resort.
- Lady Denham: A wealthy widow with a cunning and manipulative character.
- Brief Summary: Charlotte Heywood is invited to Sanditon, a quiet seaside village that Tom Parker is promoting as a fashionable resort. Austen introduces the speculators, the invalids and the local money, then the manuscript breaks off in the eleventh chapter with none of it resolved.
- Thematic Analysis: "Sanditon" explores themes such as society, ambition, love, and the role of women in 19th-century society. Jane Austen offers a subtly insightful critique of social conventions and the expectations imposed on women of that time.
- Historical Context: "Sanditon" was the last novel Jane Austen wrote before her death in 1817. Though it remained incomplete, the work reflects the evolution of English society during that period, particularly in relation to the growth of resorts and tourism. Austen provides a keen insight into the society and culture of the time, capturing the tensions and contradictions of life in a developing community.
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