07441cam a2200553 4500 232029948 TxAuBib 20150601120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385351249 0385351240 B00CCPIITQ Amazon e9e9e03b-2902-45d1-91ae-d68a75405799 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 231492 1290039 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Baker, John Milnes, 1932- Longbourn [Libby eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2551kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:• 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. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.. HTML:"Longbourn is a bold novel, subversive in ways that prove surprising, and brilliant on every level. This is a masterful twist on a classic . . . Much more than a frothy, Downton Abbey-like twist on Austen. This novel is moving, filled with suspense, and impressive for the sympathy with which it explores the drudgery of the servants' lives, as well as their heartaches. That said, there's plenty of Austen-worthy wit too.". HTML:USA Today. HTML:"If you are a Jane Austen fan with a pronounced predilection for Pride and Prejudice, you will devour Jo Baker's ingenious Longbourn as the ambrosia from the Austen gods it is . . . It's an idea that could have felt derivative or sycophantic in its execution, and yet the novel is rich, engrossing, and filled with fascinating observation . . . Dive in and you might even forget to watch Downton Abbey.". HTML:O magazine. "A triumph: a splendid tribute to Austen's original but, more importantly, a joy in its own right . . . Like Austen, Baker has written an intoxicating love story but, also like Austen, the pleasure of her novel lies in its wit and fierce intelligence . . . Baker not only creates a richly imagined story of her own but recasts Austen's novel in a startlingly fresh light . . . Inspired.". HTML:The Guardian. HTML:"An absorbing and moving story about the servants at Longbourn . . . Both original and charming, even gripping . . . If Charlotte Brontë had taken up the challenge of a sequel to Pride and Prejudice, she might very well have hit upon the sort of broader, more sympathetic point of view Jo Baker has derived from the servants' quarters.". HTML:Diane Johnson, New York Times Book Review. HTML:"An especially appealing, and timely, reworking of the classic . . . Much as Jean Rhys's reimagining of Jane Eyre through a postcolonial perspective became popular in the late nineteen-sixties, when Wide Sargasso Sea was published, so is Baker's class-conscious reconsideration of Pride and Prejudice representative of our own time.". HTML:NewYorker.com. "Delightful . . . The achievement of Baker's reworking is that Sarah is no mere foil for Elizabeth Bennet; her notions of individual agency and the pursuit of happiness push more forcefully against the class and social strictures of her time than any character in Austen's novel. The result is a heroine whom it's impossible not to root for.". HTML:The New Yorker. HTML:"Longbourn is a really special book, and not only because its author writes like an angel. Its real achievement is to circumnavigate the world of Austen knock-offs and return, like Francis Drake, with a hold full of treasure . . . There are some wildly sad and romantic moments; I was sobbing by the end . . . A beautiful book.". HTML:Daily Mail (UK.) HTML:"A witty, richly detailed re-imagining of Pride and Prejudice . . . Fans of Austen and Downton Abbey will take particular pleasure in Longbourn, but any reader with a taste for well-researched historical fiction will delight in Baker's involving, informative tale.". HTML:People. HTML:"Intelligent and elegantly written . . . Longbourn reveals these messy backdrops [of Pride and Prejudice] while still, in fitting tribute, inventing a touching love story of its own.". HTML:Wall Street Journal. HTML:"Happily, Longbourn is no mere riff but a fully imagined rejoinder to Price and Prejudice . . . Austen would have appreciated Baker's bracing rewrite from the underdog's point of view.". HTML:Newsday. "Irresistible . . . Sequels and prequels rarely add to the original, but Baker's simple yet inspired reimagining does. It has best-seller stamped all over it.". HTML:Kirkus Reviews (starred.) "Masterful . . . From the same stream that fed Austen's literary imagination, Baker has drawn forth something entirely new and fresh.". HTML:Miami Herald. HTML:"Diehards who love Jane Austen and Downton Abbey will fan their corseted bosoms while tearing through this novel.". HTML:Entertainment Weekly. "Inspired . . . This is a genuinely fresh perspective on the tale of the Bennet household . . . A lot of fun.". HTML:Sunday Times (UK.) HTML:"Longbourn is told with glee and great wit, and will delight diehard Austen fans.". HTML:The Daily Beast. "Beautifully realized . . . [The characte]. HTML:The National. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Romance. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-01 20:00:02. http://www.ntexlibrariesonthego.org/ContentDetails.htm?ID=e9e9e03b-2902-45d1-91ae-d68a75405799 https://samples.overdrive.com/presale-placeholder-e9e9e0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/presale-placeholder-e9e9e0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/presale-placeholder-e9e9e0?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR