Ever sensual and romantic, Sharon Lathan highlights everything that's best and most precious in the celebrations of the holiday season. After a quarter of a century together, Darcy and Elizabeth reminisce - Jane Austen meets Charles Dickens! Carol Eberhart's Mr. Darcy's Christmas Carol finds Darcy encountering ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future, who show him his life if pride keeps him from his one true love.
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"A "Darcy Christmas" brings Jane Austen charm to the holidays in a delightful way." - One Literature Nut
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Amanda Grange is a bestselling author of Jane Austen fiction (over 200,000 copies sold). She lives in England. Sharon Lathan is a bestselling author of Jane Austen fiction (over 70,000 copies sold). She resides in Hanford, California. Carolyn Eberhart is a debut author and member of RWA. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By lankylil
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Darcy Christmas by Amanda Grange, Sharon Lathan & Carolyn Eberhart
I would point out that I am a big Jane Austen fan (and have been for more than thirty years) and authors that use her work but change the style, characters and general feeling of her stories annoy me. I feel strongly that if someone's books are used by modern authors, the least that they can do is respect the original creator's work by not changing it or deviating from the original intent. This is a personal opinion and I know that many readers have enjoyed "seeing" Darcy as a vampire or other characters as zombies etc but I admit to being a bit of a purist where Austen's work is concerned. This personal opinion will obviously effect my enjoyment of adaptations and the reviews that I give them. This is never more so than when adaptations and variations of my favourite (of 31 years standing) fictional book, Pride and Prejudice, are produced.
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Mr Darcy's Christmas Carol by Carolyn Eberhart
I'm afraid that I didn't like this story. It felt clichéd and the language used stumbled about, confused in its style. Some descriptions seemed overly verbose without actually creating any kind of substantial imagery.
Pride and Prejudice does not give a lot of detail about Darcy's Father but we do know that he was a good, kind and considerate man, who looked after those less fortunate than himself. In this story he is the first ghost, wearing chains he forged in life ~ supposedly from lack of consideration, pride and conceit! In Pride and Prejudice Mrs Annesley is Georgiana's companion.... Read more ›
I would point out that I am a big Jane Austen fan (and have been for more than thirty years) and authors that use her work but change the style, characters and general feeling of her stories annoy me. I feel strongly that if someone's books are used by modern authors, the least that they can do is respect the original creator's work by not changing it or deviating from the original intent. This is a personal opinion and I know that many readers have enjoyed "seeing" Darcy as a vampire or other characters as zombies etc but I admit to being a bit of a purist where Austen's work is concerned. This personal opinion will obviously effect my enjoyment of adaptations and the reviews that I give them. This is never more so than when adaptations and variations of my favourite (of 31 years standing) fictional book, Pride and Prejudice, are produced.
SPOILERS CONTAINED.
Mr Darcy's Christmas Carol by Carolyn Eberhart
I'm afraid that I didn't like this story. It felt clichéd and the language used stumbled about, confused in its style. Some descriptions seemed overly verbose without actually creating any kind of substantial imagery.
Pride and Prejudice does not give a lot of detail about Darcy's Father but we do know that he was a good, kind and considerate man, who looked after those less fortunate than himself. In this story he is the first ghost, wearing chains he forged in life ~ supposedly from lack of consideration, pride and conceit! In Pride and Prejudice Mrs Annesley is Georgiana's companion.... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book contains three novellas about the Darcys Chritsmases and each one is delightful in their own way. The three authors really gave us an amazing Christmas present and you should read it sitting cosily next to the fireplace -if you got one!-and a nice hot cocoa! Complete bliss!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Phredd
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Three different authors writing on the same theme - Christmas with the Darcys. I really liked what the new author, Carolyn Eberhart, has produced. She has taken my favourite Dickens story "A Christmas Carol" and woven it through with Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" to create a very interesting hybrid (although I'm afraid purists may be extremely critical of it). Amanda Grange has surpassed herself with her contribution but she has kept the characters of the characters more or less as Austen portrayed them, which is comforting. Sharon Lathan has also surpassed herself with her Christmas story (apart from the strange use of the word "prior" when she might have used "previous" or "former" to greater effect - maybe it is one of her many odd "Americanisms"). Still, all three stories made a great read - well, I enjoyed them all anyway. (I have the Kindle edition).
By S J A
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This book is quite a good read, although I think there are a little too many 'Darcy' books on the market now.
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed the three stories of Christmas with the Darcys. All were different and engaging and delightful. I am sure that the purists will not like this book but if you would like to see three different versions of Christmas spent with the Darcys, then this is the book for you. Two of the authors have already written very good "sequel" books and the third is new and she doesn't disappoint. Well worth having a read.
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