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Pride and Promiscuity : The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen [Parody]

Pride and Promiscuity : The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen [Parody]
By Arielle Eckstut, Dennis Ashton

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In 1999, two amateur Jane Austen scholars staying at an English estate stumbled upon a hidden cache of manuscript pages and made the literary discovery of the century -- the lost sex scenes from Jane Austen's novels. Published here for the first time, the lost pages display Emma taking self-satisfaction to a whole new level, and reveal Henry Crawford's thorough exploration of "brotherly love" at Mansfield Park. If you've ever wondered what really happened in the drawing rooms of Austen's beloved characters, Pride and Promiscuity will satisfy your curiosity...and a whole lot more.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #325788 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-04-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 160 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
"A wickedly funny collection of X-rated parodies of Jane Austen's fiction…echoing her incomparable style with astonishing fidelity." -- Elsa A. Solender, President, Jane Austen Society of North America

About the Author
Arielle Eckstut is a literary agent living in New York City and San Francisco.

Customer Reviews

Terrible waste of money2
This book was a huge disappointment. The story lines made no sense whatsoever and it truly detracted from the original stories.

Tripe.2
I bought this under the mistaken impression that it was factual. Yes, I read the introduction and faux authentication by "Elfrida Drummond" who it turns out is the author's husband. Nowhere before the commencement of the book did it say that this was a farce. That's what upset me. Once I found out the truth there was no reason to continue reading it. If it wasn't written by Ms. Austen, why continue? If Ms. Eckstut had been forthright about how she billed the book, I think many of us would have been more forgiving.

Not worth my time.1
I was hoping to find this book amusing, and, well, I didn't. I pride myself on a fairly decent sense of humor, and I guess that if you're going to "go there" (as in, write up "lost sex scenes" from Jane Austen's novels) you might as well go all the way, and this book simply did not do so.