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'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.'
Title: Lady Susan
Original: Lady Susan
Category: Novel
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Year: 2016
Pgs: 128
Weight: 0.101 kg
ISBN: 978-0-241-25133-1
This book is in English
'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.'
The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella.
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'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.'
