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Shannon Hale

Austenland

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Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?
In this addictive, charming and compassionate story, Shannon Hale brings out the Jane Austen obsessive in all of us.
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195 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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  • Ольга Миклашевскаяshared an impression9 years ago
    🌴Beach Bag Book

    Что приятно, фильм очень близок к оригиналу, хотя есть все-таки несколько моментов, которые мне в экранизации понравились больше. Отличная книга для тех, кто хочет попрактиковать английский, но не сильно напрягаться. Плюс неожиданный сюжетный поворот и мир, в котором хочет побывать каждая девочка, кто когда-либо открывала романы Остин.

Quotes

  • Kingahas quoted4 years ago
    The day was gray, and patchy rain nudged the carriage roof. Jane watched the hilly country bounce by, a row of river trees huddling in a line. The fresh landscape encouraged her artist’s eye to see in paint colors—leaves of sap green, the distant roofs of a small town in burnt umber and cadmium red, the sky cerulean blue.
  • Kingahas quoted4 years ago
    “My dear Jane, you are very welcome!” A woman of perhaps fifty years approached the carriage on the arm of a red-cheeked, chubby man. Her blue dress and red umbrella were bright and inviting against the dreary backdrop of servants and rain.
    “I am your aunt Saffronia, though of course you do not remember me as I haven’t kissed your cheeks since you were two and your widowed mother married that American and took you off to the New World,” she said neatly in one breath. “How we mourned your loss! My, but it is so good of you to come and visit at last. This is my husband, Sir Templeton. He is near expiring in the anticipation of your arrival.”
    Sir Templeton blew up his cheeks and chewed on some invisible cud.
  • Kingahas quoted4 years ago
    These last three days, she had been seesawing between giddy headlong rush into fantasyland and existential terror, but sometimes when she slipped into a new dress, the only word that really applied was huzzah.

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