num_pages: 112
description: Charlotte Heywood is privileged to accompany Mr and Mrs Parker to their home in Sanditon  not least because they assure her it is soon to become the fashionable epicentre of society summers. Finding the town all but deserted she is party to the machinations of her socially mobile hosts in their attempts to gather a respectable crowd and Austen assembles a classic cast of characters of varying degrees of absurdity of sense.The last of Austens fiction works written in the year before her death when she was gravely ill Sanditon affords a glimpse of the ultimate creative powers and preoccupations of one of the greatest figures in English literature.
language: English
title: Sanditon
publisher: Hesperus Press