{"product_id":"lady-susan-isbn-9781935554356","title":"Lady Susan","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"I am indeed provoked at the artifice of this unprincipled woman.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen's small body of work. 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAusten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis little-known gem, Austen's only epistolary work, is perhaps both her funniest and bitchiest book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. 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.\"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Ron Rosenbaum, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Small wonders.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime Out London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e[F]irst-rate…astutely selected and attractively packaged…indisputably great works.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Adam Begley, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I’ve always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it’s the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher’s fine 'Art of the Novella' series.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed—tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—KQED (NPR San Francisco)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Austen\u003c\/b\u003e was an English author whose novels of manners captured, with an early realism, the social forces of the day. Acknowledged as a master of the form, her novels, including \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e, are still widely admired today.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300246081765,"sku":"NP9781935554356","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781935554356.jpg?v=1767731085","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lady-susan-isbn-9781935554356","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}