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Emma in Love (Paperback)

by Emma Tennant (Author)
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  • Paperback: 229 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd; New edition edition (5 Jun 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857026632
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857026634
  • Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 21.1 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 235,577 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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1.0 out of 5 stars Just walk away!, 14 Sep 2007
By C. North "clare_the_bear" (Nottingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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If I could give this book zero stars I would. A friend of mine was interviewed by Emma Tennant for a place at Cambridge and her mum bought her this book after she was rejected, and it certainly made her feel better about it. Saying that Emma Tennant claims that 'Emma' is one of her favourite novels, she doesn't actually seem to have read it.

The storyline and standard of writing in this "book" are so poor that for every page of it I read I had to dilute it by reading a few chapters of the original. The first page was pretty amusing (she kills of two charcters in as many lines) on a level of suspended belief but everything else about it is atrocious.

After studying Austen for several years, I have to say that I picked up just a little information about regency life in general, I fail to see, therefore, how it is possible for Emma Tennant to have gone so wildly astray. She makes glaring historical inaccuracies, regarding marriage laws and general social standards.

Besdies all this she commits (once again) the unforgivable crime of completely changing the personalities of characters we have learnt to love in the original. Emma Woodhouse seems to have forgotten everything she learnt in the first book and has become a coward besides.

Anyone who still wants to read the book look away from the following *SPOILERS* showing just how dreadful this book is:
- Emma and Knightley have not consumated their marriage after a year, yeah right.
- Frank Churchill ditches Jane Fairfax at the altar, after all that bother in the original.
- Emma turns into a lesbian. Yes. Really.

Take my advice and just go back and read the original again, or try writing your own sequel, it will be better.
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