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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
by Laurie Viera Rigler
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525950400
- ISBN 13
- 9780525950400
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Dutton Adult, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. hardcover. 293 pp. Fiction. In this jane Austen-inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern L.A. girl and Jane Austen enthusiast, wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen's time. Not only is Courtney Stone stuck in another woman's life, she's forced to pretent she actually is that woman---and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer.
Synopsis
In this Jane Austen–inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen's time.After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman's life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her love of Jane Austen has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condomless seducers, and marriages of convenience. Enter the enigmatic Mr. Edgeworth, who fills Courtney's borrowed brain with confusing memories that are clearly not her own.Try as she might to control her mind and find a way home, Courtney cannot deny that she is becoming this other woman—and being this other woman is not without its advantages: Especially in a looking-glass Austen world. Especially with a suitor who may not turn out to be a familiar species of philanderer after all.
Reviews
On Jul 31 2011, MrsChappie said:
I can highly recommend this book to all Janeites! It is a highly entertaining romp through Jane Austen's England. I loved it! If you buy this, you must buy the sequel/partner to this book "Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict". It is the second half of the story. A fabulous read, I just couldn't put either of these books down.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E29763
- Title
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
- Author
- Laurie Viera Rigler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0525950400
- ISBN 13
- 9780525950400
- Publisher
- Dutton Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- austen, time travel, humor, regency, literature,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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