Sanditon

Sanditon

Jane Austen

10,68 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Double9 Books LLP
Año de edición:
2025
Materia
Poesía
ISBN:
9789370811812
10,68 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

Sanditon explores the intersection of ambition and social dynamics in a rapidly developing seaside resort. As a growing town becomes a destination for the wealthy, the narrative reveals the characters aspirations and the complexities of class relationships. At the heart of the story are a couple, newly immersed in the community, who find themselves caught up in the excitement and strategic efforts to make Sanditon a fashionable retreat. The characters navigate the dynamics of societal expectations, the creation of leisure spaces for the elite, and the tension between social climbing and genuine connection. The setting is rich with humor, illustrating the lengths people will go to for status, as well as the subtle interplay of personal desires and public ambitions. Through sharp dialogue and social observations, the story paints a picture of a town driven by economic and social aspirations, revealing how individuals and groups react to change and opportunity. Austen s witty commentary on class, ambition, and social mobility offers a satirical yet insightful glimpse into the emerging leisure culture of her time.

Artículos relacionados

  • Beyond the Road
    JT Curran
    “Beyond the Road” is JT Curran’s first published volume of poetry.  Selected from collected works which span over fifty years, JT’s poetry blends colorful observations with thought-provoking reflections.  With wit, compassion, irony, and humor, this book invites the reader to consider the signposts, off-ramps, co-travelers and vistas which populate our journeys. JT’s words remi...
    Disponible

    24,76 €

  • Polishing the Silver
    Jennifer Chrystie
    ‘There’s a touch of both Dickinson and Larkin in Jennifer Chrystie’s mature exhumation of the tales and tropes of family. Figures who could so easily flit like phantoms in her well honed poetry are palpably enjoying an after-life in the poet’s ability to redeem through deep understanding. The collection arcs from, at one extreme, the parsimonies of the household, to the transce...
    Disponible

    15,83 €

  • One Kiss
    Edward V Bonner
    The very title of Edward V. Bonner's first volume of poetry, One Kiss (Ingram, 2015), suggests some ways in which the poems inside balance the universal with the particular. Most of the poems examine the themes of beauty and risk, pleasure and danger, in the context of one of three kinds of relationships: to romantic partners, to the spiritual world, and to the world of nature....
    Disponible

    11,43 €

  • Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica
    Valerius Flaccus / Michael Barich
    Swollen seas, erotic monsters, Greek passion gone Latin, deftlyThis 1st-century AD Latin version of the earlier Greek epic features exotic lands, wondrous monsters and a sea voyage over swells of young love. Valerius Flaccus lent sharp Roman refinements and erotic passion to the tale, which are skillfully sustained in this careful and appealing modern translation in English ver...
    Disponible

    19,29 €

  • Crow Impressions & Other Poems
    Edith Hoisington Miller
    Foreword Welcome to the poetry of Edith Hoisington Miller. Through her book, Crow Impressions & Other Poems, we travel through Edith Miller’s life, a journey lived to the fullest through family stories, travel adventures, nature, music, and history. In her poetry, we discover a writer who has spent her life as a quiet observer, but, at the same time, deeply engaged in natural ...
    Disponible

    15,40 €

  • The Truth about A
    Maureen O'Shaughnessy
    In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles, Brecht, Ted Hughes, Anne Carson and, most particularly, Euripides. Set in contemporary Sydney, among a fictional underworld family, The Truth abou...
    Disponible

    13,35 €

Otros libros del autor

  • Lady Susan
    Jane Austen
    Lady Susan (1871) narra las intrigas de Susan Vernon, una joven viuda, hermosa, inteligente y extraordinariamente hábil para manipular a quienes la rodean. Decidida a asegurar su posición social y económica, busca un matrimonio conveniente para sí misma mientras intenta imponer a su hija Frederica un pretendiente al que esta rechaza.Entre visitas, confidencias y estrategias cui...
    Disponible

    14,00 €

  • Les cinq filles de Mrs Bennet
    Jane Austen
    Dans l’Angleterre provinciale du début du XIXe siècle, Mrs Bennet n’a qu’une obsession : marier au plus vite ses cinq filles, notamment la vive et indépendante Elizabeth, dont les joutes verbales avec l’orgueilleux et fortuné M. Darcy vont peu à peu se transformer en un amour aussi passionné qu’inattendu. Chef-d’œuvre absolu de Jane Austen, ce roman d’esprit et de sentiment, l’...
    Disponible

    16,64 €

  • Catherine Morland
    Jane Austen
    Jeune lectrice passionnée de romans gothiques, Catherine Morland part séjourner à Bath puis dans une abbaye mystérieuse, où son imagination débordante, nourrie de ses lectures romanesques, lui fait voir des complots et des secrets terrifiants là où il n’y en a pas. Jane Austen y signe une satire brillante et pleine d’esprit du roman gothique alors en vogue, tout en livrant une ...
    Disponible

    13,70 €

  • Pride and Prejudice (Masterpiece Library Edition)
    Jane Austen
    Enter the world of Regency England in Jane Austen’s timeless masterpiece, *Pride and Prejudice*. Follow the spirited Elizabeth Bennet as she navigates family, society, love, and her complicated first impressions of the proud Mr. Darcy. Witty, romantic, and enduring, this beloved classic remains one of literature’s greatest love stories. ...
    Disponible

    17,07 €

  • Sense and Sensibility
    Jane Austen
    After their father’s death leaves them financially vulnerable, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood must navigate love, secrecy, money, and social expectation. One governs feeling through judgment; the other trusts feeling as truth, and both discover the cost of acting upon incomplete knowledge.When the family estate passes to their half brother, the Dashwood women leave Norland for th...
    Disponible

    18,18 €

  • Pride and Prejudice
    Jane Austen
    In the drawing rooms, assembly halls, and country estates of Regency England, first impressions can shape a future-and overturn one. Elizabeth Bennet is intelligent, observant, and quick to laugh at pretension. Fitzwilliam Darcy is wealthy, reserved, and painfully conscious of rank. Their first encounters leave Elizabeth convinced that Darcy is arrogant, while Darcy struggles a...
    Disponible

    19,41 €