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Title: Eliza's Daughter by Joan Aiken ISBN: 0-312-10972-5 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: What happed to Austen's characters?
Comment: Most of the characters from the original novel are butchered to make Eliza look good. Edward and Elinor no longer seem to care for or respect each other. Marianne never comes to love Colonel Brandon and is just plain spiteful. Mrs. Dashwood goes insane. Almost all of the characters end up miserable except Eliza. You are supposed to like and admire her for overcoming all of her struggles but I just do not see how that is possible.
Rating: 5
Summary: my look at eliza's daughter
Comment: i found reading eliza's daughter was very interesting.it gave me an insight of the life of a parentless girl in that era.the trials she had to go through and to overcome.it was very well written and had me glued to it from beginning to end,i would recomend this book to anyone who loved the jane austen classics. in fact it is a complete novel all on it's own and worth reading whether you liked jane austen or not.i like this book so much that i am trying to buy it and i'm very sad it is now out of print.in my opinion this book is right up there with the austen's bronte"s the dicken's to name a few.so i would give this book 10 out 0f 10 for the story,the settings,and how it was written.
Rating: 1
Summary: Nasty, Nasty, Nasty
Comment: I made the enormous mistake of reading this book before S&S. I hated the book at the time, and I hate it even more now. Edward's character is absolutely butchered. He is turned into a mean scrouge. Marianne's impulsive, dramatic behavior is coarsened. S&S clearly states that she came to love her husband. The book makes her this cranky, spiteful woman. The book itself is depressing, sad, and leaves a nasty taste in the reader's mind. It is not at all like Jane Austen. The author does not understand Jane Austen and does a horrible job of imitating her. Jane Austen was optimistic, although everyone may not live in paradise, they are happy/content. Jane Austen delicately pokes fun at her society, Joan Aiken drags it down into the level of...well...scum. The story itself is unfullfilling and boring. I hated and despised it.
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Title: The Youngest Miss Ward by Joan Aiken ISBN: 0312193750 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Later Days at Highbury by Joan Austen-Leigh ISBN: 0312146426 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman: Book 1) by Pamela Aidan ISBN: 0972852905 Publisher: Wytherngate Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Mansfield Revisited: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park by Joan Aiken ISBN: 0385197934 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1985 List Price(USD): $1.98 |
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Title: Excessively Diverted: The Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Juliette Shapiro ISBN: 1589392647 Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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