Lady Susan Plays The Game
Bloomsbury Reader
ISBN13:
9781448216604
$17.46
A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel Lady Susan will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing. Austen's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan, is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of financial instability and saddled with an unmarried, clumsy and over-sensitive daughter. Faced with the unpalatable prospect of having to spend her widowed life in the countryside, Lady Susan embarks on a serious of manipulative games to ensure she can stay in town with her first passion - the card tables. Scandal inevitably ensues as she negotiates the politics of her late husband's family, the identity of a mysterious benefactor and a passionate affair with a married man. Accurate and true to Jane Austen's style, as befits Todd's position as a leading Austen scholar, this second coming of Lady Susan is as shocking, manipulative and hilarious as when Jane Austen first imagined her.
- | Author: Janet Todd
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
- | Publication Date: Jul 28, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 388 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 1448216605
- | ISBN-13: 9781448216604
- Author:
- Janet Todd
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Reader
- Publication Date:
- Jul 28, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 388 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 1448216605
- ISBN-13:
- 9781448216604