Jane Austen's Lady Susan

Lady Susan has always been among the most popular of Jane Austen's novellas. It reveals the astounding range, subtlety, artistry, and depth of thought of a true literary colossus. As the book opens, Lady Susan, a strikingly beautiful widow in her upper thirties, has just been sent packing from the home of a family she had spent some months with, having been discovered carrying on a flagrant affair with the husband of the family, right under his wife's nose. She takes refuge with her kind-heart