The Jane Austen Project
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Saskia Maarleveld
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Auteur(s):
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Kathleen A. Flynn
À propos de cet audio
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: Two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.
London, 1815: Two travelers - Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane - arrive in a field in rural England, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. Turned away at a nearby inn, they are forced to travel by coach all night to London. They are not what they seem but rather colleagues who have come back in time from a technologically advanced future, posing as wealthy West Indies planters - a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren't the first team from the future to "go back", their mission is by far the most audacious: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen herself.
Carefully selected and rigorously trained by The Royal Institute for Special Topics in Physics, disaster-relief doctor Rachel and actor-turned-scholar Liam have little in common besides the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in. Circumstances that call for Rachel to stifle her independent nature and let Liam take the lead as they infiltrate Austen's circle via her favorite brother, Henry.
But diagnosing Jane's fatal illness and obtaining an unpublished novel hinted at in her letters pose enough of a challenge without the continuous convolutions of living a lie. While her friendship with Jane deepens and her relationship with Liam grows complicated, Rachel fights to reconcile the woman she is with the proper lady 19th-century society expects her to be. As their portal to the future prepares to close, Rachel and Liam struggle with their directive to leave history intact and exactly as they found it...however heartbreaking that may prove.
©2017 Kathleen A. Flynn (P)2017 HarperCollins PublishersCe que les auditeurs disent de The Jane Austen Project
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire1 out of 5 stars
- Gauravi
- 2022-04-22
Great potential, good narrator, bad book
A frustrating book that I abandoned several years ago and decided to try again. Oddly I felt myself giving up around the last 5 chapters, just like the time before. While not unpleasant to read, there is just something about the story that gets draggy and boring around this point.
Narrator is great and the audiobook version actually helped me finish this trudgey story when I got bored of reading it!
The Pros:
- I adore time travel/people living in multiple eras! The depiction of old London, the human experience, nontechnical aspects of time travel is very well done.
- Fanfiction delight! Capturing many imaginary conversations I’ve had with Jane Austen in my own head. Getting to know her, imagining what she would make of the idea of time travel and of the freedom women have fought for in our world.
The Cons:
- The premise of time travel (for such a ridiculous project), without serious repercussions is idiotic, even with the ex Machina fix to this in the final chapter.
- The random forced romance between the lead characters who I still feel like I know too little about. What on earth is Liam's problem through most of the start of the book, if he has such a giant stick up his ass how on EARTH would Jane Austen like him so much?!
- After dragging on needlessly for so long, the ending is hurried and random and with too many plot holes to recount.
I was left feeling that if you’re going to have ridiculous time travel logic, why not be completely audacious and give me something really crazy like Jane comes to the current world?! Why play it safe while also throwing sense out the window?!
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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- Maggie Reid
- 2018-09-10
Very Boring!
The story had so much potential and the narrator was very good, but way too boring. My other complaint is that it would go from very proper English, which I understood to be period correct, but then the woman character would suddenly use a jarring tone and cuss. That felt so wrong!
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- JLFK
- 2022-09-04
Could you imagine?
Actually meeting Jane Austen…this story was incredible…I actually teared up when it ended.
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- BookWorm
- 2023-01-15
Wish it were true
As an avid Austen fan, I love the idea of going back in time to meet her. But to change history and have 17 new novels? If only.
The love story under was inevitable but didn’t play out too predictably. The author set you up to second-guess that prediction for a while. Overall it’s a good love story with a futuristic post-apocalyptic world crossed with Regency England.
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