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Modified image of a Gerald Scharfe illustration
for The New Yorker.** |
This is a first for Jane Austen Today, gentle readers, but I could not resist offering a back-to-back throwdown. It has been reported that Jacketcopy will produce a steamy version of
Pride and Prejudice (as if that concept is new).
Pride and Prejudice as a bodice ripper? Would you read such a
trashy ripoff intriguing novel?
**Original Illustration, Gerald Scharfe -
The New Yorker, Everybody Loves Jane
4 comments:
No way...aren't there any writers out there who can create original Regency stories instead of just recycling and stealing and demeaning classic books to make a buck ? Apparently not !
To anyone who said yes, have you read Linda Berdoll's The Bar Sinister, now renamed Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife? It is a P&P sequel, not a retelling of the original story but boy is it steamy! Apparently Mr. Darcy is quite something in the bedroom!
I haven't read any of her others, but I imagine they would be pretty racy too.
Is this the eejit who claims "This is the novel Jane Austen would have written if she had the nerve?" Then, absolutely not, and that's why--not the sexytimes.
Why that is practically blasphemy!
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