Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart

Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
2 January 2012
Pages
464
ISBN
9780345524966

Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature’s Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart

Original Stories Inspired by Literature’s Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart

In Lauren Willig’s A Night at Northanger, a young woman who doesn’t believe in ghosts meets a familiar specter at the infamous abbey; Jane Odiwe’s Waiting captures the exquisite uncertainty of Persuasion’s Wentworth and Anne as they await her family’s approval of their betrothal; Adriana Trigiani’s Love and Best 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 Stupidity finds Mr. Darcy bringing charges against all the writers of Pride and Prejudice sequels, spin-offs, and retellings; in Janet Mullany’s Jane Austen, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! a teacher at an all-girls school invokes the Beatles to help her students understand Sense and Sensibility; and in Jo Beverley’s Jane and the Mistletoe Kiss, a widow doesn’t believe she’ll have a second chance at love … until a Miss Austen suggests otherwise.Regency or contemporary, romantic or fantastical, each of these marvelous stories reaffirms the incomparable influence of one of history’s most cherished authors

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