This edition is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham McDonald, originally designed for this book. This book contains three unfinished novels of English novelist Jane Austen. In Sanditon, Austen explored her interest in the verbal construction of a society by means of a town – and a set of families – that is still in the process of being formed. Austen began work on the novel in January 1817 and abandoned it on 18 March 1817. The manuscript for Sanditon was originally titled "The Brothers," likely after the Parker brothers in the story. After her death, her family renamed it "Sanditon." "The Watsons" - she began writing it circa 1803 and probably abandoned it after her father's death in January 1805. It has five chapters, and is less than 18,000 words long. Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871.