Published: Feb. 15, 2011
Words: 146,550 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458074263

Short description

For all lovers of Jane Austen’s novels, a completion of her unfinished "Sanditon" by a university-level teacher of her work. No zombies or little green men, but a serious attempt to recreate the story as Austen herself might have done, in keeping with her tone, narrative technique, outlook and historical period.

Extended description

For real lovers of Jane Austen’s work, a completion of her unfinished Sanditon as she might possibly have envisaged it herself. No zombies or other anachronistic gimmicks, but a number of interlaced love stories set against a gently satirical picture of the fads and fancies of the times, above all the rising fashion for sea bathing and the greed and folly that accompanied it.

When Charlotte Heywood leaves her large and conservative family of Kentish landowners to stay with the Parkers in the new resort of Sanditon, she expects nothing more than a tranquil seaside holiday. She soon however becomes involved in the life of the little town, and is challenged to measure her own traditional values and tastes against those of financial speculators, affected social climbers, fashionable hypochondriacs, and followers of the new romantic ideas in the arts and human behaviour. Her initial attitude is that of an amused spectator, but soon, to her own surprise, she finds herself falling in lov.. (Read more) For real lovers of Jane Austen’s work, a completion of her unfinished Sanditon as she might possibly have envisaged it herself. No zombies or other anachronistic gimmicks, but a number of interlaced love stories set against a gently satirical picture of the fads and fancies of the times, above all the rising fashion for sea bathing and the greed and folly that accompanied it.

When Charlotte Heywood leaves her large and conservative family of Kentish landowners to stay with the Parkers in the new resort of Sanditon, she expects nothing more than a tranquil seaside holiday. She soon however becomes involved in the life of the little town, and is challenged to measure her own traditional values and tastes against those of financial speculators, affected social climbers, fashionable hypochondriacs, and followers of the new romantic ideas in the arts and human behaviour. Her initial attitude is that of an amused spectator, but soon, to her own surprise, she finds herself falling in love with her host’s younger brother, the witty and fascinating Sidney Parker. Sidney however leaves Sanditon abruptly in the company of Charlotte’s beautiful and enigmatic friend Clara Brereton, with whom Sir Edward Denham, penniless nephew of the town’s patroness and “great lady”, is in love, to his avaricious aunt’s displeasure, and the town buzzes with rumours of an elopement…

Anne Toledo has taught English Literature at university level for many years, specialising in the nineteenth-century novel in general, and in Jane Austen in particular. She is a devoted Janeite, and hopes that this story will appeal to those who share her love and appreciation of Jane Austen’s work at all levels – as romance, as humorous observation, and as moral satire, and also as a fascinating picture of daily life in middle-class England in the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars.
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romance, regency, jane austen, sanditon

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Review by: Corbitt Nesta on March 07, 2011 :
Sanditon was Jane Austen's last novel, and in fact was never completed. Begun just a few months before her death, the novel stops after only a few short chapters. Almost two hundred years later, Anne Toledo has undertaken completing the novel in the inimitable Austen style. Toledo is not the first to take Austen's setting, her characters and plot and continue them to the logical Austen conclusion. Her `completion' is however the best of the several published in the last 50 years. Toledo has done a magnificent job.

After the first few lines of the `new' chapters, the reader feels she is in good hands, the hands of a master novelist, as if she were truly reading the last of Jane Austen's novels. The style, the almost mathematically balanced quality of the sentence construction, the cadence of the dialogue, the character development, the setting and the ins and outs of the plot ARE Jane Austen.

The setting, as in Austen's later novels, is all important. Sanditon is an English sea resort in the planning and early construction stage. The characters are all in one way or another concerned with making the place successful. Interwoven with this commercial interest, very well researched and seamlessly presented, are the love stories, family conflicts and descriptions of the changing social fabric in England in the early 19th century. Toledo's novel, exactly like all of Jane Austen's complete ones, can be read on many levels.

And it's a fascinating read. We recommend it to all Jane Austen fans.
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