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Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
written by Emma Campbell Webster
Studio : Riverhead Trade
by Riverhead Trade
Publisher : Riverhead Trade
Released : 2007-08-07
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781594482588
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 15 reviews)
List Price : $14.00
Our Price : $2.84
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Product Description |
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Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines-a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcome. Name: Elizabeth Bennet. Mission: To marry both prudently and for love. How? It's entirely up to the reader. The journey begins in Pride and Prejudice but quickly takes off on a whimsical Austen adventure of the reader's own creation. A series of choices leads the reader into the plots and romances of Austen's other works. Choosing to walk home from Netherfield Hall means falling into Sense and Sensibility and the infatuating spell of Mr. Willoughby. Accepting an invitation to Bath leads to Northanger Abbey and the beguiling Henry Tilney. And just where will Emma's Mr. Knightley fit in to the quest for a worthy husband? It's all up to the reader. A labyrinth of love and lies, scandals and scoundrels, misfortunes and marriages, Lost in Austen will delight and challenge any Austen lover. |
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Disappointed |
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I find the book more a curiosity, but falls short from being interesting. It's more like a game. Maybe the author should make a borad game based on Austen's book. I was expecting analyses on her work. It is entertaining though, and I've been reading it for pleasure on my leisure time. But I'm not really enthralled by it. |
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A Fun read |
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Oh Sure it's not the best book ever written, but it is fun for a fluffy read on a rainy weekend. The choices cracked me up sometimes, and I can't wait to finish it and see what happens to me next. Great addition to any Austen lovers library. |
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Great diversion! |
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I ordered this book because I wanted to get free shipping, and I was missing a couple dollars. To my surprise and delight, this turned out to be a very fun read! The diversions from the main plot are very ingenious, and you'll recognize many of Jane Austen's works. Totally worth getting. |
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Fun for Austen fans and other readers |
Combine Jane Austen novels (especially Pride and Prejudice) with the children's Choose-Your-Own Adventure format, and you get this book. Your goal, of course, is a suitable marriage, but beware of the many possible complications. Made the wrong choice, turn to the wrong page, and disater may ensue. You might well be scarred for life, imprisoned in Northanger Abbey, or (worst of all fates) remain a spinster. Oh, well, you can always backtrack. Too bad life doesn't work that way.
This is a fun read. It doesn't require extensive knowledge of Austen, though some memory of the book or movie version would probably make it easier to keep track of characters (some of whom are imported from other Austen novels). It might be an effective way to involve students or would-be Austen readers with the novels. And, of course, for the young adult or old adult who enjoyed the choose-your-own-adventure stories as children, it's a pleasant bit of nostalgia.
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Fun!!! if you want Classic Austen, read Classic Austen |
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SO I have seen people complain because this book alters some of Austen's details and mixes events or people from different books. Come on, this book is meant for fun. It's Jane Austen + Choose your own adventure books from my childhood, and it's about time someone thought to combine the 2. This book is amusing and entertaining. Enjoy it for what it's meant to be. |
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