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. Published for the first time these missing pages are sure to astonish and delight every avowed Austen devotee and all those devotees to come. "Pride and Promiscuity" is a landmark publication of indescribable importance.
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Review:
"Arielle Eckstut brings her ready imagination to conjuring the sex scenes that Austen was not able to provide; she can write as if this were homage rather than desecration." (The Guardian)
"Make of Pride and Promiscuity what you will, but it's so impudently indulgent, so wantonly imaginative, only a killjoy could dismiss it with a sniff." (Erotic Review)
"Eckstut, I mean of course, Austen, has not gone over the top. . . she has stayed faithful to both tone and characters. Reader, it works." (Time Out)
"A parody to delight Austen aficionados" (The Scotsman)
"A wickedly funny collection that satirises the Austen oeuvre yet also manages to play implicit homage by echoing her incomparable style with astonishing fidelity."
Book Description:
A brilliantly executed parody of Jane Austen's 'forgotten' sex scenes
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1841954586
- ISBN 13 9781841954585
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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