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Jane Austen's Books
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Mansfield ParkIn Mansfield Park, the Bertram family’s social and private worlds are revealed through the eyes of Fanny Price, a poor relation residing with...Read More
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PersuasionCentering on Anne Elliot, Austen's Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, and a story of missed opportunities and second chances.Read More -
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Sense and SensibilityENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A timeless tale of romantic manners and mores in which two vastly different sisters...Read More
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Pride and PrejudiceENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Jane Austen's lively, humorous, and ultimately timeless tale of proper English society,...Read More
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The Scotsman, February 10, 2012
...eyes – he thinks, “This was marriage, pragmatically compressed into emotional haiku.” This is the kind of novel Jane Austen would be writing if she were alive in the 21st century: full of acid and unsparing – even of her protagonists – but also...
Guardian.co.uk, February 10, 2012
...young girls to seduction, and therefore (as the standard narrative had it) to prostitution. Respectable novelists such as Jane Austen tended to avoid the issue. To some small degree Dabhoiwala seems to me to exaggerate his sexual revolution by allowing...
Guardian.co.uk, February 10, 2012
...with his precise yet violent collisions between time and desire? Or Montaigne for whom friendship reigns supreme? Or Jane Austen with her girl meets boy tales and that romance of a marital happily-ever-after so thoroughly grounded in the realities of...
Deseret Morning News, February 10, 2012
...Inkberry Press, $11.99, 252 pages (f)(ages 12 and up) In Jenni James' second book of "The Jane Austen Diaries," she takes a stab at revamping one of Austen's lesser-known works, "Northanger Abbey." But where Austen pulls inspiration from haunted and...
Deseret Morning News, February 10, 2012
...Inkberry Press, $11.99, 252 pages (f)(ages 12 and up) In Jenni James' second book of "The Jane Austen Diaries," she takes a stab at revamping one of Austen's lesser-known works, "Northanger Abbey." But where Austen pulls inspiration from haunted and...
Globe and Mail, February 10, 2012
...Comes to Pemberley. The creator of detective Adam Dalgliesh combines her two great passions writing detective novels and Jane Austen in a whodunit sequel to Pride and Prejudice. 5. Emma Donoghue, Room. Written in the voice of a five-year-old boy, born to...
Jane Austen Today, October 14, 2011
...Marvel Comic's adaptations of Jane Austen's works have been quite popular since they were published. All were written by Nancy Butler; all use different graphic novel artists. In "Progress of a comic artist", Sonny...
The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader, October 13, 2011
...Wishes, Aunt Jane” imagines a modern-day Austen giving her niece advice upon her engagement; in Diana Birchall’s “Jane Austen’s Cat,” our beloved Jane tells her nieces “cat tales” based on her novels; Laurie Viera Rigler’s “Intolerable...
The Rap Sheet, October 13, 2011
...book that picks up where Pride and Prejudice left off and introduces a decidedly sinister twist to the Jane Austen classic: a deadly crime. Death Comes to Pemberley will be published by Knopf on December 6th ...Set in 1803 at Pemberley, the Darcy family...
Seattle Mystery Bookshop, October 13, 2011
...book that picks up where Pride and Prejudice left off and introduces a decidedly sinister twist to the Jane Austen classic: a deadly crime. DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY will be published by Knopf on December 6th, it was announced today by Sonny Mehta,...
ArtsBeat, October 13, 2011
...that book, causing the family no end of shame and distress.In a statement Ms. James apologized to Jane Austen for putting Elizabeth in such a messy situation but added that the novel allowed her to fuse two great enthusiasms: “for the novels of Jane...
Diary of an Eccentric, October 13, 2011
...Reynolds as a guest on Diary of an Eccentric. Abigail is the author of several retellings of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , her most recent being Mr. Darcy’s Undoing (check out my review ). I love how she always manages to throw a new...
The Written World, October 11, 2011
...Honey by Mary Robinette KowalCompletion Date: August 26, 2011Reason for Reading: Fun!The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had writtenShades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer:...
