Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163185 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-14
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
In 2002, two amateur Jane Austen scholars, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery - lost scenes from Jane Austen's novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre. Hidden by Jane Austen's younger sister Cassie in 1818, these missing pages throw an entirely new light on all of Austen's work making explicit the latent and repressed sexuality that underlies much of her fiction. The discovery also forces new assessments of Austen herself. For along with these pages they found letters to her editor, Thomas Egerton, and her sister arguing and anguishing over the extensive cuts that she was asked to make in order for her novels to be seen as acceptable and decent to her publisher. Pride and Promiscuity is a landmark publication of indescribable importance.

Customer Reviews

Absolute filth
This "book" belongs on the top shelf at one of those shops where you have to be over 18 to enter.

Anyone who thinks that Miss Austen could have had the lowness of mind to create such filth should think again. The book is neither consistent with Miss Austen's style of writing or with the morals of Miss Austen's class of the times.

The "stories" are inconsistent too... Tell me, if Lizzie Bennet was of such low moral character to behave in such a way with Mr Darcy, why was there such an outcry when Lydia eloped with Mr Wickham?

The would-be trickster who penned this travesty obviously did not do their homework.

Also, it just so happens that the lost manuscripts were found by an Austen fanatic... yeah right! Bit of a coincidence don't you think?
Don't waste your money on this junk.

Close to being truely dreadful
I'm sorry to say that this book was, like so many books which build on Austen's masterpieces, a real disappointment. It's not that it's particularly bad; indeed the premise is intriguing and the first couple of episodes mildly amusing. But the writing, the dialogue in particular, is so out of keeping with Austen precise and careful style, that it is incredible; and so repetitive that it soon becomes predictable, then boring, ultimately pointless. The core idea would have been better worked into an article for the Sunday papers or a literary journal - there's not enough originality to sustain a full length novel, even one as short as this is. So sad.

False and disgusting
Reader please note : none of these lost scenes were written by Jane Austen.
The auther of this book is exploiting her name for personal gain. None of the letters or scenes are even written in the right style and are vile and disgusting. If you want to read and enjoy Jane Austen then read her novels again and again!. If you would like to know more about her read books by Deidre le Faye. No stars at all !!!!!!