Searching for Pemberley
Through letters, diary entries, and oral history, a couple in the nearby village share stories of the people they say inspired Jane Austen. They also tell their own love story, made difficult by their vastly different backgrounds-she was one of the social elite while he was the son of a servant.
Through letters, diary entries, and oral history, a couple in the nearby village share stories of the people they say inspired Jane Austen. They also tell their own love story, made difficult by their vastly different backgrounds-she was one of the social elite while he was the son of a servant.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781402228452 (1402228457)
Publish date: December 1st 2009
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Historical Romance,
Contemporary Romance,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
World War II,
Regency
Before I get to the actual review, allow me to give you a little backstory on how I came across this book and why I wanted to read it so very badly. A year or so ago, I stumbled to the "Jane Austen" section in fanfiction.net and read a story by the author Mary Simonsen, which was a "what if" retelli...
This novel will definitely please those readers who love to read about romance, history, family and Jane Austen. The foundations of this novel lie on Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice, as the protagonist, Maggie Joyce, a young American girl working in London after WW2, goes in search o...
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