Sanditon: Jane Austen's Unfinished Masterpiece

Lorenzo: Lettura consigliata

Italy on Oct 06, 2023

Oui, v good story: Very good 😊

Australia on Aug 14, 2023

María Cortés: Libros de edición sencilla pero bonita, interesante leer a los clásicos.

Spain on Dec 28, 2022

Alison Smorfitt: This is beautiful. Happy with my purchase. Would be ideal for an older homeschool student who could write their own extension of the story.

United States on Jan 27, 2021

Lynda: For some reason the language used in this version is cumbersome, overly verbose and in some cases just bizarre (Eg when Mr Parker refers to his wife as ‘my dear’, this version of the book represents it as ‘my expensive’) If the original language wasn’t already English, I would have thought it was a bad Google translation. I compared it to another version of the book and quickly realized it was better, so I am ditching this one virtually unread.

Canada on Jul 14, 2020

David Alan Williams: This is a review of the Penguin Clothbound Classics Edition of Sanditon, with a foreword, and edited, by Margaret Drabble. (Re-written following the corruption and misplacing of the original review 12/06/20)

On the face of it this is a re-issue of Penguin's much loved and highly regarded Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon, edited and with a foreword by Margaret Drabble, now in hardcover form.

The rather unusual failure to mention two thirds of the content in the cover title is probably due to a wish to emphasise Sanditon because of a renewed interest in that work resulting from ITV's recent (somewhat dubious) adaptation of the work.

There could be no better antidote to the television series' gross misinterpretations of the manuscript.

Return to the sparkling sunshine and freshness of Jane Austen's funniest writing, and Margaret Drabble's incomparable foreword and editing, by purchasing this lovely book

United Kingdom on Jun 12, 2020

suzy hallock-bannigan: It is a bit odd that the PBS Masterpiece theatre made such profound changes in the clues Austen gives us in her unfinished work: (1) Charlotte Heywood and Sidney Parker are left with her returning to her family and his heading off to marry someone who broke his heart over a decade ago; If anything at all, this rendition of Sanditon should be a bit like Fanny Price returning to her home of origin prior to her return to Mansfield Park and marrying her clergyman. Usually in Austen, the right people wind up together despite several frustrations in the interim; (2) Sir Edward’s great object in life is “to be seductive,” and the object of his seduction is supposed to be Clara although he has an eye for Charlotte and would not mind trifling with her; (3) Lady Denham is much more savvy in the television adaptation than she seems in Austen’s beginning chapters (after all, every neighborhood needs a great lady); (4) The entire urban planning and emergence of the middle class is not readily apparent in Austen’s opening chapters; in fact, if people want to be by the sea, why don’t they take lodging? “There are a great many empty houses. “Three on this very terrace,” says...

United States on Feb 29, 2020

Stephen Warres: This unfinished novel begins a bit clunkily; no doubt Ms. Austin would have brought it to life in her second draft. But she begins to hit her usual stride as the novel proceeds. What chiefly interested me were Ms. Austen's comments on illness and determination, especially given her own illness and imminent death.

United States on Jan 31, 2020

Kindle Customer: This edition has major formatting issues with punctuation and missed spaces between words, making it difficult to read. There were several on every page.

The story itself was fabulous, it is such a shame it was not completed as the characters she invented for this book is hilarious. Austen's already well-developed sarcasm seem to flourish in this book. I imagine I can feel that the authoress herself had matured in this introduction to the Sanditon community. It is some aspects bolder than her previous works.

I have seen Andrew Davies' adaptation and I feel that he missed the mark somewhat in his portrait of Charlotte. She seems less naive and more perceptive in the original compared to the adaptation.
With Sydney, I guess Davies was too influenced by another of Austen's heroes because Austen herself, in the little description to be had, called Sidney good-looking and lively of countenance...

Recommend the book but you should choose another edition with less formatting issues.

United States on Jan 20, 2020

Elizabeth R. Gannon Andrade: Now that Sanditon is coming to PBS I wanted to read the book. She didn't firmly establish the main protagonist although some of the other characters are well sketched out. It will be interesting to see what PBS does with it.

United States on Aug 21, 2019