![]() I have seen some negative comments but I frankly dismiss them as petulant or uninformed. I found Juliet Barrett's Charlotte the best of the lot. I even seem to recall a movie version of the Sanditon fragment quite a few years ago. I own several completion attempts of the latter two fragments both in audio and in print. Jane Austen herself helped eliminate this style of novel writing with her body of work including Sense and Sensibility perhaps, one should say helped lay the foundations of the modern novel. ![]() ![]() It is written as a series of letters, a form of novel favored by novelists of the day including Samuel Richardson, Ann Ward Radcliffe and others. It is an absolute pleasure to listen to her. ![]() Norma West turns in the best performance of these three works that I have heard. I wanted to see what my own speculations would be without a third party present. I bought this because I had only read/listened to the fragments as parts of completions by various writers. ![]() However, if you are in the words of the Jane Austen Society of North American, a Janeite, there is much food for thought and speculation about The Watsons and Sanditon. Unless you are a thorough going Austen addict, this is probably not the book for you. ![]()
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