'no person could be really well . . . without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year' In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explores the mysterious and startling transformations that a stay by the sea can work on individuals and relationships. Sanditon is a fictitious place on England's south coast and the obsession of local landowner Mr Thomas Parker. He means to transform this humble fishing village into a fashionable health resort to rival its famous ...
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'no person could be really well . . . without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year' In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explores the mysterious and startling transformations that a stay by the sea can work on individuals and relationships. Sanditon is a fictitious place on England's south coast and the obsession of local landowner Mr Thomas Parker. He means to transform this humble fishing village into a fashionable health resort to rival its famous neighbours of Brighton and Eastbourne. In this, her final, unfinished work, the writer sets aside her familiar subject matter, the country village with its settled community, for the transient and eccentric assortment of people who drift to the new resort, the town built upon sand. If the ground beneath her characters' feet appears less secure, Austen's own vision is opening out. Light and funny, Sanditon is her most experimental and poignant work.
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Very good. Pages are clean! The dust jacket has minor damage or small tear. Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Fair. Item in acceptable condition including possible liquid damage. As well answers may be filled in. May be missing DVDs, CDs, Access code, etc. 100%Money-Back Guarantee! Ship within 24 hours! ! The dust jacket is missing. This is a ex library book, stickers and markings accordingly. WATER DAMAGED! ! !
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Small quarto. Tiny nicks at the spine ends, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light bumping at the base of the spine and a couple of tiny nicks along the topedge.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0395202841. Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 329 pages; 1975 Houghton Mifflin Company. HC/DJ. Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright wraparound color pictorial dust jacket. Full cloth binding with 1975 date on title page but with no price to the jacket flap and a book clum indent to the base of the rear board. Book club issue in materials and binding identical to the first. Trace shelf rubbing to jacket at spine ends. Feels and appears generally unread. NF/VG++