| Lady Susan Plays the Game Contributor(s): Todd, Janet (Author) |
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ISBN: 1448216605 ISBN-13: 9781448216604 Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.19 lbs) 388 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |