Joanna Trollope
Joanna Trollope has been writing fiction for more than 30 years. Some of her best known works include The Rector's Wife (her first #1 bestseller), A Village Affair, Other People's Children, and Marrying the Mistress. She was awarded the OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honors List for services to...
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Joanna Trollope has been writing fiction for more than 30 years. Some of her best known works include The Rector's Wife (her first #1 bestseller), A Village Affair, Other People's Children, and Marrying the Mistress. She was awarded the OBE in the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honors List for services to literature. She lives in England.
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I'm just not sure about this one. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. But then again I had no trouble finishing it. I think that Trollope would have got a lot more bang for her buck if she allowed herself greater deviations from the original story. I recall that the movie Clueless was insp...
Warning: I'm assuming you've read Austen's version of Sense and Sensibility as I write this review. I won't spoil how this book ends but I'll talk about actions and events that happened in the original. Austen's Sense and Sensibility (S&S) was the first of her books I ever read...seventeen years ...
This is less an adaptation than a straightforward updating of Sense and Sensibility. All characters have the same names, act in the same fashion (more or less), and follow a modernized version of almost the exact plot of the original. Although I love adaptations and appreciate it when they are fai...
Twice upon a time, there were three Dashwood sisters, though no one took much notice of the youngest one. Their father died far too young, and they and their mother were forced by their cruel sister-in-law and weak half-brother to leave the home they'd grown up in. _Sense & Sensibility_ -- the first...
From the review desk of Adm. Croft: "It won't set the Thames on fire, but there's no harm in it".
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