Lady Susan/the Watsons/sanditon

Previously unpublished in unabridged audio, these three works - one a novel unpublished in her lifetime and two unfinished fragments - reveal Jane Austen's development as a great artist. LADY SUSAN, with its wicked, beautiful, intelligent and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama that takes its tone from the outspoken and robust 18th century. Written later, and probably abandoned after her father's death, THE WATSONS is a tantalising and highly delightful story whose vitality and optimism centres on the marital prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town. SANDITON, Jane Austen's last fiction, is set in a seaside town; its themes concern the new speculative consumer society and foreshadow the great social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.