He soon discovers that he is trapped in the same waking dream with no end in sight and no possible escape. All that he holds dear—his name, his home, his love—remains ever out of reach.
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How will he find his way back to his normal life? Will one mistake haunt the rest of his days? It will take all of his fortitude to weather the storms of his strange new fate, and all of his courage to grasp the promise of his future.
This is a "Pride and Prejudice" variation I will read again and again. Rational Creatures Available October True romantic or rational creature? Her novels transport us back to the Regency, a time when well-mannered gentlemen and finely-bred ladies fell in love as they danced at balls and rode in carriages.
Yet her heroines, such as Elizabeth Bennet, Anne Elliot, and Elinor Dashwood, were no swooning, fainthearted damsels in distress.
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True to their principles and beliefs, they fought through hypocrisy and broke social boundaries to find their happily-ever-after. Have you never wondered about the pasts of her rakes, rattles, and gentlemen rogues? Surely, there's more than one side to their stories. For over two hundred years, Jane Austen's Mr.
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Darcy has captivated readers' imaginations as the ultimate catch. And yet, as Miss Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is established through Elizabeth Bennet's fine eyes, how are we to know his mind? How does Darcy progress from "She is tolerable: In this romance anthology, fifteen Austenesque authors assemble to sketch Darcy's character through a series of re-imaginings, set in the Regency through contemporary times--from faithful narratives to the fanciful. Herein "The Darcy Monologues", the man himself reveals his intimate thoughts, his passionate dreams, and his journey to love--all told with a previously concealed wit and enduring charm.
If you long for a toasty snuggle on a cold winter's night, this compilation of original short stories inspired by the magic of the season-and more than a nod to Jane Austen-is fancied as a sublime wintertime treat. On the heels of the summer anthology, Sun-kissed: Effusions of Summer, and in concert with some of Meryton Press's most popular authors, this romantic anthology introduces several promising writers. With a robust mix of contemporary and Regency musings, Then Comes Winter rekindles passionate fires with equal wonder, wit, and admiration.
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Praise for Then Comes Winter. With a modern setting, politics, manipulation, and sisters abound, it does a great job of setting the romantic and Austenesque mood of the rest of the stories without being heavy-handed All and all, Then Comes Winter was the perfect way to spend a rainy winter day". It all sounded terribly romantic and tragic, all these little old ladies getting just the one chance with the one man, and having to live forever with the consequences.
One exception was a woman on our road. She wore men's suits, smoked cigars, and always reeked of brandy. This was a woman who did 'spinster' with style. I suppose she must have been a lesbian; she was definitely one of the first 'ladettes'. I've been thinking about all this, because there's a new book out called Women Alone: Spinsters didn't have a very good time in those days - burnt as witches, hired out as slave labour, always at risk of being arrested as prostitutes.
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Mind you, is it so much better now? It seems to me that unmarried women past 30 are still being 'burnt as witches', only this time they're being licked by the flames of their own paranoia, fanned by a culture that still can't bear to see girls doing it for themselves. And while with 'bachelors' just as daft and ugly a word there is the sense of a work in progress, that these men actually will get hitched when the 'lucky lady' comes along, the word 'spinster' seems to indicate a cul-de-sac, a dead end, a finishing.
In Woody Allen's Sleeper, the bad robots are sent back for reprogramming, and with spinsters the same rule applies.
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Unmarried women are invariably viewed as women who have 'malfunctioned,' failed dramatically as women, in some terribly important, gratuitously pejorative way. I do wish women wouldn't fall for this baloney, but a lot of them do. Even worse, some of them try to 'save themselves', clambering over the bodies of other women like rats leaving some kind of sisterhood Titanic. You can see this most clearly with the issue of divorce.
Call me thick, but to my eyes divorced women look just as single as women who have never been married at all. However, that doesn't seem to compute in the present climate. The argument seems to run that because divorcees were once 'chosen' by some dork because they pulled off the holy state of matrimony to some dork , even for a short time, they are somehow 'superior' to women who have never been married at all. It must be one of the few examples of female failure being perceived as something rather snazzy and desirable.
Moreover, where will it end?