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Emma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma Continued

Emma in Love: Jane Austen's Emma Continued
By Emma Tennant

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In writing Pemberley, the sequel to Pride and Prejudice, Emma Tennant created a new literary genre: the classic progression. Now she brings us the sequel to Emma, which finds Jane Austen's spirited heroine in the fourth year of her marriage to Mr. Knightley. Although there is harmony between them, Emma is frankly bored. Mr. Knightley is affectionate; but he is, in reality, an old friend, who has, in his own words, "lectured and blamed" the much younger Emma all her life. Knightley is no Mr. Darcy. To amuse herself, Emma decides to take up matchmaking again. But this time, she is playing for dangerously high stakes. Emma Tennant is the author of the acclaimed novels Wild Nights, Woman Beware Woman, and Black Marina. Her sequels include Pemberley, Tess, An Unequal Marriage, and Elinor and Marianne.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #263145 in Books
  • Published on: 1997-06-01
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 229 pages

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Wish I could give it 0 stars1
Tennant writes: Mrs. Elton, like a shark that waits in waters bloodied by a fall, swam up with her repeated offer of an excellent situation for Jane. Need I say more? What ever possessed Tennant to think this gory word picture would bring to mind the beautifully restrained writings of Jane Austen? Austen's polite restraint and gentle humor are only a few of the reasons she can deal so effectively with the controversial topics of her times. While this book wrestles with controversial topics, it is done without finesse, beauty or regard for Austen's original character development. What passes for wit in this book comes across as mocking Austen's characters and style. I wanted to like this book but wound up hating it.

Absolute Trash!1
If you love "Emma" as much as I do and you really want to read some more, try "Jane Fairfax" by Joan Aiken - it's so much better than "Emma in Love"! I felt like Emma Tennant polluted all the characters I grew to love in the original. Truly bad!

No justice to Emma1
Emma Tenant has managed to completely regress every single character that grew in character in Austen's Emma. The writing and the use of the English language leads you to wonder if Ms. Tennant actually READ Emma or anything by Austen before beginning her tale.

It is unclear to me how anyone could take the liberties she has taken with this story and introduced shuch lewdness. The things that are introduced in the story would certainly be more suited for trashy dime store romance novels.

It makes me wish there was a rating less than one star.