Lady Susan

An Apple Books Classic edition.

Written when she was just 19, this early Jane Austen novella is a juicy, wicked tale starring a heroine more deliciously conniving than any of her others. The widowed Lady Susan Vernon is breathtakingly beautiful and irresistibly charming. On the surface, at least. When she sets out to secure an advantageous new husband, she reveals the true extent of her scheming.

Ensnaring one rich suitor and toying with another, Lady Susan might just get everything she wants—if she can keep her mask from slipping. With this fascinating early antiheroine at its heart,Lady Susan shows Austen already dissecting the social and economic games of Regency life with impeccable, caustic wit.