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Title: Sanditon: Jane Austen's Last Completed Novel by Another Lady, Anne Telscombe, Jane Sanditon Austen, Another, Marie Dobbs ISBN: 0-684-84342-0 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best Austen sequel/completion I have read up to date
Comment: "Austen's Sanditon, completed by another Lady" is one of the first Austen sequel/completion I have read, and during the 7 years since I first started to read takes on Austen it still remains the best one. Granted, the "Other Lady"'s prose is not perfectly seamless, and the characters have little modern touches about them sometimes; but compared to the inaccuracies and prose/plot attempts I found in other Austen sequels this one's errors are negligible. The author develops the plot believably enough and in an entertaining way, the characters- particularly Sidney and Charlotte- are engaging, and the prose is most of the time very good. Other sequels always seem to lack something about them- either in prose (as in Julia's Barret entertaining but highly flawed "Presumption"), an interesting plot (or otherwise, as in Joan Aiken's very-good "Jane Fairfax", keeping true to Austen's book), or adequate characterization. This book, however, has everything in sufficient and well-done amount, and I found it to be the most satisfying of the Austen takes that I read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quite Satisfying
Comment: As a major Jane Austen fan needing more, more, more I bought this book. With much trepidation, I practically circled it twice before opening it. By time I closed it at the end, I was amazed at how well the "other lady" finished Ms. Austen's last novel. It's obvious in the first 11 chapters that Jane Austen's illness made it impossible not only to finish the novel, but to polish and re-write it as was her wont. It's a little sad to read her rough beginning and I thought the "other lady" did very well at picking up the thread and saving this novel. Absolute purists may claim the novel was better left unfinished, but I think it was an enjoyable read. Unfortunately I accidentally left the book on an airplane, with only a few pages left to go, but suffice it to say that I immediately went out and bought it again because it was such a good novel. Only a very few words and scenes were not true to Austen form, but since there can never be another Jane Austen, this shouldn't come as a surprise. The Other Lady carefully developed the characters in Austen form, and the plot was very good. She introduced more twists in the plot than Austen would have, but they served to make the novel even better. Read the Apology at the end of the book before embarking upon reading, and you will understand how graciously the Other Lady bows to the fact that she knows she's no Jane Austen, but a loving Jane Austen fan. I enjoyed Sanditon more than Letters from Pemberely, which I felt left the reader rather cold and didn't capture Elizabeth Bennet at all. Sanditon is by far the best of the "spin off" genre.
Rating: 5
Summary: Glad its available,so desperate to read bought out-of-print!
Comment: I first read this 20 years ago from the library and reread three times. I liked it so much I bought from out-of-print edition 6 years ago and reread again. I am very pleased this book is available again so others can enjoy. The other lady lets you know where she continues the story in the forward. Jane Austen set up the characters to a point that you can see this might have been one of her wittier and lighter novels. Some of Austen's previous novels after Pride and Prejudice and Emma became darker and more moralistic as they paralleled the transitions and losses in her real life. Her acceptance of her situation must have been easing because this novel is set in a wittier and lighter tone with good characters. The other lady transitions well and continues the characters and adds humor and Austenlike twists of her own to carry the characters to a satisfying ending.
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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: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Third Sister: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Julia Barrett, Jane Sense and Sensibility Austen ISBN: 1551664461 Publisher: Mira Books Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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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 Inc. Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Pride and Prescience : Or, A Truth Univesally Acknowledged by Carrie Bebris ISBN: 0765305089 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Jane Fairfax : The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen's Emma by Joan Aiken ISBN: 031215707X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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