This year commemorates Jane Austen's 250th birthday, making it an ideal time to explore her literary genius, including gems like Lady Susan. John Mullan provides insights into her works, highlighting Pride and Prejudice as a quintessential romantic narrative showcasing Elizabeth Bennet's spirited exchanges and complex relationships. The article underscores Persuasion's emotional depth, reflecting on second chances through the character of Anne Elliot. It also notes Austen's incomplete final work, Sanditon, which showcases her signature wit in a seaside setting bustling with unique characters.
"Pride and Prejudice bursts on the first-time reader now, as it must have burst on the first readers in the winter of 1813...the best attraction-disguised-as-antagonism love story ever."
"The one to make you cry, Persuasion is the one for romantics, and for readers who have lived long enough to know their own mistaken choices."
"When she died, Jane Austen was working on a new book. She left us with eleven-and-a-bit chapters of a novel to be called Sanditon."
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