Presumption

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Advance praise for Presumption by Julia Barrett
"A boon to anyone who has ever yearned for one more in the Jane Austen canon."
-Cynthia Ozicl^ author The Cannibal Galaxy
"A witty amusing sequel to Pride and Prejudice a stylish entertainment that may ead some to the unsurpassable Jane." -Mus Reviews
"A word about Presumption. Yes, it's an entertainment, duly presumptuous in recalling one of the most glowing novels in English literature, but charmingly free of bravado in inviting that relation, it is not Julia Barrett's motive to challenge Jane Austen to a duel of wit, but to pay pleasant tribute to her art by engaging uncompetitively with it. Presumption is a work of wit in its own duly earned right, continuously vivid and urbane. 'Regulated hatred' was once ascribed to Jane Austen as the animating force of her fiction. It is too late for that now But not too late for intelligence, grace, and style; as now in Presumptioa" -Denis Donoghue, critic
The Arts Without Mysteiy... Tovább

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Advance praise for Presumption by Julia Barrett
"A boon to anyone who has ever yearned for one more in the Jane Austen canon."
-Cynthia Ozicl^ author The Cannibal Galaxy
"A witty amusing sequel to Pride and Prejudice a stylish entertainment that may ead some to the unsurpassable Jane." -Mus Reviews
"A word about Presumption. Yes, it's an entertainment, duly presumptuous in recalling one of the most glowing novels in English literature, but charmingly free of bravado in inviting that relation, it is not Julia Barrett's motive to challenge Jane Austen to a duel of wit, but to pay pleasant tribute to her art by engaging uncompetitively with it. Presumption is a work of wit in its own duly earned right, continuously vivid and urbane. 'Regulated hatred' was once ascribed to Jane Austen as the animating force of her fiction. It is too late for that now But not too late for intelligence, grace, and style; as now in Presumptioa" -Denis Donoghue, critic
The Arts Without Mysteiy
"Presumption proves by its very title to be a worthy pretender in continuing the story of Pride and Prejudice and the promise of the title is confirmed by the elegance of the language, the intricacy of ?le plot and the shrewdness of the wit. Marriage, both anticipated and experienced, provides a fruitful theme for Julia Barrett, as it did Jane Austen, offering the broadest possible canvas on which to portray the full range of human emotion" -Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey author
Woman of Independent Means

A delightful revel for any reader who has ever longed to spend just a few more hours in the company of Jane Austen's engaging people, Bennets, Darcys, Collins, de Bourghs.
Here, in this witty sequel to Pride and Prejudice, are all of our old friends, and some newer ones too. In the idyllic serenity of their great house, Pemberley, we find Georgiana )arcy now under the happy tutelage of her young sister-in-law, Elizabeth Bennet Darcy At seventeen years, she is just coming to womanhooc.
Georgiana, romantic by nature, has been wounded by her previous misadventure with Jeutenant George Wickham, and has vowec to give her heart to no man. Her vow, however, is sorely put to the test by the attentions of the gallant Captain Thomas Heywood, newly returned from the Naval Wars. No such threat is posed by James Leigh-Cooper, a brilliant architect engaged by Fitzwilliam Darcy for improvements upon his Derbyshire estate: this guileless, plain-spoken admirer somehow succeeds in nettling Georgiana at their every encounter. Vissza