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Longbourn / by Jo Baker.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385351249 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0385351240 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Edition: electronic resource
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain by Transworld, an imprint of the Random House Group Ltd., London." |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Electronic books. |
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- 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 '
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If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd 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 servants' hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.
Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen's classic'into 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 Wars'and, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.Â
This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. - Random House, Inc.
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ⢠âFans of Austen...will take particular pleasureâ (People) in this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice.
While Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters fuss over balls and husbands, Sarah, their orphaned housemaid, is beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When a new footman arrives at Longbourn under mysterious circumstances, the carefully choreographed world she has known all her life threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.
Mentioned only fleetingly in Jane Austenâs classic, here Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Regency England and, in doing so, uncovers the real world of the novel that has captivated readersâ hearts around the world for generations.