Longbourn
Record details
- ISBN: 0385351232 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780385351232 (hbk.)
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Physical Description:
331 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers"--Title page verso. |
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Subject: | Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century Fiction Families Fiction Household employees Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Independence Branch | BAKER J (Text) | 33126017416045 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A reimagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the drama of the Bennet household from the sideline viewpoint of Sarah, an orphaned housemaid. - Baker & Taylor
A reimagining of Jane Austen'sPride and Prejudice from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the romance, intrigue and drama of the Bennet household from the sideline perspective of Sara, an orphaned housemaid who becomes subject to the arrival of the militia and the attentions of an ambitious former slave. - Random House, Inc.
⢠Pride and Prejudice was only half the story â¢
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If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, sheâd most likely be a sight more careful with them.
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In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servantsâ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.
Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austenâs classicâinto the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Warsâand, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.Â