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| Title | : | Longbourn |
| Author | : | Jo Baker |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | October 8th 2013 by Knopf |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance |
Jo Baker
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.63 | 47149 Users | 7215 Reviews
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• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants’ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen’s classic—into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Wars—and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.
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| Original Title: | Longbourn |
| ISBN: | 0385351232 (ISBN13: 9780385351232) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.63 From 47149 Users | 7215 ReviewsPiece Of Books Longbourn
Have you ever thought an author was a good writer, but you didn't like the story they were telling? That's how I feel about this book. The author is good at writing (except for some places that had lengthy and very detailed descriptions. I'm not too interested in that, unless it's historical fiction. That's when I want all the nitty gritty details - of the actual events.)I don't like how she made the Bennett family seem shallow and ... I don't know... It just seed like the author wants to knockYou'll think that I'm being silly and hyperbolic when I say books like this are the purpose that historical fiction is meant to serve but I mean it very sincerely. Don't pick this book up wanting to swoon over Elizabeth and Darcy, or expecting the narrative focus to be on the story Austen told in P&P. It's not about that. It's about giving voice to the voiceless, fleshing out the ghosts that would otherwise fade and be shred to pieces before the onslaught of time. Blue coat, black horse:
I loved this book - a great retelling, a detailed and atmospheric historical novel, with engaging characters and a brilliant plot. I would highly recommend.
Originally posted on Confessions of an Opinionated Book GeekI did not finish this book. I couldnt, because I am too big of a Jane Austen fan and this is a cross between fan fiction and a historical soapbox. Everything that could have happened to a lower class person in Regency England happens in this book. Its filled with so many events, its melodramatic.This book did not need to be set in the Bennet household. It could have been any household in any historical time where there was a below
This story tells the story of Pride and Prejudice from the viewpoint of the servants in the Bennetts household; the stories are told in parallel with every overlap between the two worlds exactly based on the book.A brilliant book compelling its own right but outstanding due to the alternate side of Pride and Prejudice that it presents, not just the poverty and the war but even in some of the characters (e.g. Mr Collins is a more sympathetic character to the servants, not to blame for his own
Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?!!Pride and Prejudice, meet your new counterpart, Chilblains and Chamberpots!Its always risky when an author decides to piggyback on an existing novel. Im not in any way, shape or form a purist; I didnt embark on Longbourn feeling particularly protective of its predecessor. But I just cant abide stale cloying romances masquerading as gritty historical fiction, regardless of whether it has anything to do with Pride and Prejudice or not.I feel
I have been toying with the idea of giving this two stars. Why? Because I very much like Jo Baker's prose. The book does have many gorgeous lines. Poetic lines. Lines of wisdom that sometimes express views I share, but I certainly do not agree with the line: (view spoiler)["No matter how they get there, the end was all the same." This is about Mrs. Hill and whether she would have rather lived her life differently. I disagree with the underlying message of the line. I believe how you live your
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