Lady Susan

by Jane Austen

Overview

Lady Susan es una novela corta, de forma epistolar, que puede considerarse el puente entre los escritos juveniles de Jane Austen y sus magistrales novelas maduras, y que ya presenta toda la sutileza e ironía de la autora... Su protagonista, lady Susan Vernon, es un personaje memorable: una viuda todavía joven (treinta y tantos), de gran belleza e inteligencia, pero cuya apariencia encantadora, amable y seductora oculta una personalidad egoísta, manipuladora, mentirosa, fría, falsa y despiadada... Lady Susan llega a Churchill, a la mansión de campo del señor Vernon, el hermano de su difunto esposo, para refugiarse del escándalo provocado por sus recientes coqueteos con un hombre casado en Langford. Aunque es recibida con prevención, sobre todo por su cuñada, la señora Vernon, la cautivadora lady Susan logra engañar a (casi) todos, logrando conquistar al joven Reginald mientras trama la boda de su hija Frederica con un hombre al que ella detesta...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935554356
Publisher:	Melville House Publishing
Publication date:	03/08/2011
Pages:	86
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jane Austen was an English author whose novels of manners captured, with an early realism, the social forces of the day. Acknowledged as a master of the form, her novels, including Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice, are still widely admired today.

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father

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