Arielle Eckstut

In 2002, two amateur Jane Austen scholars, while staying at a Hertfordshire estate, stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made an extraordinary literary discovery - lost scenes from Jane Austen's novels that reveal an altogether different dimension to her oeuvre.

The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen

Pride & Promiscuity

Sarah Escorsa

The idea behind this book is really fun but the way it is written is so unoriginal, so unlike Austen! The dialogues definitely lacked Austen's wit, fast pacing and precise writing. What I found particularly amazing was what Elsa A. Solender (President of the Jane Austen Society of North America) had to say about this book:"A wickedly funny collection of X-rated parodies of Jane Austen's fiction…echoing her incomparable style with astonishing fidelity" Astonishing fidelity? I'm wondering if we read the same book! And this woman is supposed to be the President of the Jane Austen Society of North America??!! Stunning! Anyway, the stories become very repetitive and, after a few chapters, the book is just plainly boring...

Jane Austen would definitely *not* approve, mainly because the book is so badly written!

Pride & Promiscuity The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen

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