In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. This little-known gem, Austen's only epistolary work, is perhaps both her funniest and bitchiest book. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives into friendship and even tormenting her own daughter, cruelly bending her to her will.Īusten clearly delighted in her wicked heroine-tracing Lady Susan's maneuverings to remarry yet continue on with her lover, and to marry off her young daughter, with great wit, zest and unfailing panache. Although Jane Austen wrote from her teenage years into her thirties, her most notable writing was done from 1811 until 1816. This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen's small body of work. "I am indeed provoked at the artifice of this unprincipled woman."
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