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    A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice

    By Jane Austen, Alex Goodwin and Tess Newall

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    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

    And Mrs Bennet has five unmarried daughters in want of husbands. Life is fairly uneventful until a promising young man, Mr Bingley, takes the nearby estate of Netherfield Park. And with him comes a handsome friend, whom the ladies see brooding in the corner at the next ball. The dashing Mr Darcy gains the admiration of every lady in the room, until, that is, he refuses to dance with Elizabeth Bennet. As time passes and their acquaintance grows, however, Mr Darcy begins to find Elizabeth's face rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes…

    Here is a brand new abridgement of the classic Jane Austen novel – this time with a cute, humble and handsome cast of guinea pigs in the starring roles. It's even more dreamy to fall in love with a furry Mr Darcy.

    'This may be the definitive version of Pride and Prejudice. If they could get War and Peace down to this length, it would be a service to mankind' Salman Rushdie

    'If you're anything like me, you had no idea how much the world needed a furry rodent reenactment of Lizzie and Darcy's love story until one existed' Melissa Albert
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateSep 24, 2015
    ISBN9781408865521
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    A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice
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    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose work centred on social commentary and realism. Her works of romantic fiction are set among the landed gentry, and she is one of the most widely read writers in English literature.

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    • 5/5
      I'm a little dubious of both Jane Austen cash-ins and guinea pigs, but I took a chance on this anyway. I was surprised to find it delightful. 56 pages of regency-attired guinea pigs along with an abbreviated text in Austen-style. A fun item for the P&P collector.
    • 4/5
      Main participatory read for both #AusteninAugustRBR and at Book Rat's Persuasion Readalong for Austen in August 2012.

      Absolutely loved reading the story I've enjoyed so much on dvd. I wanted to see and hear the nuances of JA's actual story of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth - Not a filmmaker's version and perspective...
      I was not disappointed.

      Full and rich characterization of people I've come to care for with insights into their lives, choices and actions that definitely had me forming my own opinions, hopes and desires for the resolution of the earlier 'persuasion' experienced...

      English tale of life and love past due date for Anne Elliot, now in her spinsterhood due to refusing the marriage proposal of her pursuer, Irishman, Frederick Wentworth. She had bowed to the persuasion of a family friend and confidant, Lady Russell, who had stepped in to fill the role of Anne's deceased mother. Convinced her sailor would not have a future other than what he was at the time of their courtship, she had let him go off to pursue his life and dreams without her by his side.

      Now, 8 years later, he returns a hero with a fortune and in need of a wife as Jane Austen has famously stated in opening Pride and Prejudice.
      "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife". And Captain Wentworth is proving her point as he flirts with Anne's sister Mary's young sisters in law upon his return. His own sister, Sophy and her husband, have rented the Elliot's home, Kellynch Hall, for their home when Anne's father has had to retrench to save financial ruin induced by living above his means.

      The Captain's evident interest in the Musgrove sisters ends in a near fatal accident which allows light to dawn on him and his heart's precarious position. He and Anne are thrown together in various and increasingly frequent situations, enabling opportunities to re-evaluate their relationship and leading to the satisfying conclusion of love lost and regained...

    • 5/5
      Favorite hands down so far.
    • 4/5
      I liked this one a lot. I liked that it wasn't about an ingenue; I liked the hints of the world beyond the social circles; I liked the maturity of the relationships; I liked the way Austen slipped in a bit of intrigue.
    • 4/5
      One of Austen's best. The setting and characters were great and the story seemed surprisingly realistic. Couldn't put it down.
    • 4/5
      The humour is a bit broader than I remembered. Many nice phrases are turned. At bottom, this a comic romance, with a happily ever after (unless killed or maimed in a naval engagement) ending. It has the difficulties, followed by the happy reconciliation of countless others like it. But it is very sprightly, and quite cynical about family connections. Anne's relations have no redeeming features beyond being well groomed and preserved.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite of Austen's books. (I re-read often and really don't know when I first read it.)
    • 5/5
      Yay! Everybody lived happily ever after. So glad I listened to this, and so glad I stuck to it.
    • 4/5
      My favorite of Austen's books. Such a long painful love story-not like Anna Karenina-much less dramatic-more of a slow anquish made worse by all the shallowness surrounding it. Many people find the plot drags, but that's somewhat the point. If you don't ascribe to the notion of delayed gratification being all the sweeter then this won't move you. I like the understated characters of Anne and Wentworth who seem deeper than some of the more feisty of Austen's heroines. Not to detract from Elizabeth or even Emma, both of whom I also like, but Anne really deserves the happy ending more than any other. Enduring love is impressive for one and Anne's growth as a character from the time she refuses him (swayed by family) and marries him (stands on her own) is an interesting and understandable transformation. Plenty of humor too, with all the usual silliness of young women trying to marry off.
    • 2/5
      This is a typical Jane Austen book (which undoubtedly you've already read at least Pride and Prejudice), so you must already be accustomed to her style of writing. There is subtle humor in her writing, and though it takes a little while to parse through the etiquette and length phrases of niceties, it is worth it in the end.

      The story follows Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a prideful yet foolish baron, and her progression in love. I believe the most quoted phrase from this book is something along the lines that Anne "had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older – the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning." Or something of that sort.

      So to condense the story, it basically follows her love life of denying a capricious and emotionally-driven match, only to meet up with that very same man eight years later. It's actually quite humorous how very little the two protagonists speak or even interact - it's almost in the ways they avoid each other that you begin to see the romance. A far cry from modern day romances, to be sure.

      For me, however, things moved too quickly and too slowly at the same time (if that is even possible). In one sense, out of nowhere, a plot twist can happen without any foreshadowing just because. Or suddenly two characters fall in love, or there is a spontaneous meeting, or suddenly evil intentions are made known. Although this is typical of Jane Austen, it's all a little too capricious and too coincidental for my liking. (i.e. it pisses me off when plot lines converge too neatly). But at the same time, it moves slowly in the sense that nothing is really happening if you think about it!! I bemoan the actual lack of action and plot.

      But oh, her wit is very clever. Austen titles the book "Persuasion", and this comes out in very clever ways and in her philosophy through Anne's eyes when interacting with different characters. So although I am pretty much complaining and nitpicking, I did appreciate many things in the book, including the way you could almost picture the character in your head. Very lovely.

      Two and a half stars because I thought it was good, but rounded down because I wouldn't reread it. It is a classic that ought to be read at least once, more to understand this style of writing than for the actual story. Recommended for people who love Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters, or that ilk of books. Also recommended for people who want to broaden their horizons on different styles of writing.
    • 5/5
      Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen novel. It gives you a couple that you can't help but cheer for. It has enough angst to keep you reading, and just overall great characters that you get attached to. Such a great read!
    • 3/5
      Austen's novel created some noble characters that follow the formula of most romantic comedies. Google summary below: Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?Jane Austin once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work.
    • 3/5
      In reading Jane Austin’s last published novel, Persuasion, I was so disengaged with the novel even midway through the story, but I kept plodding on, hoping to find some redemption, while wishing for the story to come to its final pages. Because I was so enamored with Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, I was surprised that this later novel never quite pulled at my emotional heartstrings. In this novel I felt that Austin introduced numerous characters to the story, but she never offered much detail to describe each one. As such, I was never able to visualize each character, and I felt only a superficial connection to the characters and to the plot. I will say that Jane Austin was a gifted writer, and that her prose flowed elegantly at times throughout the novel. Using dialogue to express the thinking of her characters, Austin occasionally used these opportunities to offer a social commentary about matters of the heart. For example, when Anne was discussing with Captain Harville the issues of constancy and devotion regarding love, she said, “God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow creatures. I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as—if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.” In this conversation, Anne was undoubtedly referring to her long, unrequited love for Captain Wentworth, upon which the story evolved.
    • 5/5
      This book was written approximately two hundred years ago and by one of the greatest authors in English literaure. And if people are reading it still it has to mean something. It delivers and is on the mark. Everything you expect from a classic is here - beautiful language, clear narrative, suspense and a feel of Victorian England. A must read and a true classic.
    • 5/5
      This will just always be my favorite -- bittersweet, and a hint of what could have come if only Austen had been with us longer.
    • 5/5
      Anne Elliot is a sweet intelligent girl with a foolish vain father,a selfish witch of a sister,a married sister who thinks she is sick all the time and calls her to visit and take care of her all the time,her mother is died,she has a god-mother who loves her but doesn't understand her,a brokenheart because she was persuaded by her family to break off an engagement to the only man she ever loved because he didn't have enough money for her family,and now her family has fallen into debt and must rent the family home and move to Bath a town she hates.To top all this off the renters are the sister and brother-in-law of her ex-fiance who has come back form the war very rich.She is still in love with her ex-finance Captain Wentworth but does he still love her and if can he forgive her for breaking his heart?Persuasion is all about second changes and anyone who has gotten one will connect with Anne and Wentworth.The title has just as much to do with Anne not marrying Wentworth 8 years ago as it does with her trying to persuade herself she doesn't still love him and she will not think of him again.Austen's most romantic work is my third favorite and her swan song.She died before it was published.Her favorite brother Henry published Persuasion along with her first finished but never published novel Northanger Abbey.Her last novel is one of her best and I can't help wishing that there had been many more.
    • 4/5
      Listened to this as an audiobook, and must say it is more difficult to listen compared to reading the text. If my mind wanders off, there's no going back a page or two. However, I enjoyed Karen Savage's reading; her voice is very suitable for reading Austen and very amiable to listen.About the book itself; you got to love Jane Austen. I have nothing to add.
    • 4/5
      Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is one the most romantic by the author. The idea of unrequited love being rekindled may have come from Austen’s personal hopes¸ but who knows. When she writes of Anne’s discomfort at being in the same room when Captain Wentworth, her jilted lover, I can truly feel it. Persuasion isn’t my favorite (Sense & Sensibility), but I do love Anne Elliot. As with all of Austen’s novels, the boring parts are boring and the good parts are excellent.
    • 5/5
      It's a bit presumptuous to rate Jane Austen on the same five point scale one uses for everyone else. But what can you do?

      At the risk of seeming low brow, I still prefer Pride and Prejudice and Emma. But I do not begrudge Anne Elliot her much delayed happiness.
    • 2/5
      I must admit that a sizable percent of the book was unintelligible to me. But what I missed was not, I believe the meat and potatoes of the book. I was not missing the passages that confirmed Jane Austen is a literary genius. I do admit, however that Austen is dignified and tender, not to say sophisticated in her treatment of the theme of romance. On a different subject, it was fascinating to read a pre-Victorian novel. It was intriguing to read a book about mostly a woman, written by a woman during less modern times, to put it mildly. I can see that people find the book well written. I can see that it survived obscurity. I just don't see how this book is so prized by readers young and old.
    • 5/5
      My favorite scene from all of Jane Austen is in this book.
    • 5/5
      Even better the second time! (Finished again 19 Ma 2009)
    • 4/5
      My favorite of the Jane Austen books! While Pride and Prejudice is perfectly wonderful, this one is just so much better for me. I love Anne and I love that she does get torn about a bit and is determined to not let people continue to get in her way.

      Society can be cruel and wrong about what is good for people. This is Anne's lesson in that very thing. Very relate-able, even now.
    • 5/5
      Persuasion is my favorite Austen novel, and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing it read by Juliet Stevenson. Her characterizations are wonderful and her interpretation completely worthy of Austen.
    • 4/5
      Beautiful romance, the 'good' characters receive their rewards.
    • 5/5
      Read through dailylit.com and kept clicking the "send next installment" over and over--was supposed to take 6 weeks (I think) instead I read it in two days.
    • 3/5
      I know that this puts me in a minority of Austen readers, but I have never really liked this book. It's too short and lightly sketched -- it reads less like a novel and more like an outline of a novel. The hero and heroine barely speak to each other, and I really dislike Anne -- she's nearly as priggish and meek as Fanny Price. And even Austen's trademark humor doesn't work as well in this book as it does in others; there are some humorous lines, but her viciousness about poor Richard Musgrove just seems mean.
    • 3/5
      This was Austen’s last novel, and one would think it would be the ultimate work of a mature author who had honed her craft. But it isn’t. It’s not Austen’s fault. She grew quite ill and was not able to finish it.There are still many of the elements of a treasured Austen classic here. She is able to turn a critical eye on the social mores of the time and expose the frustration and angst of the young women who were captives of their class and station in life. But the sparkling dialogue of her earlier works is missing in Persuasion. I found the plot bogging down in places, and I was confused by the cast of characters. Neither Captain Fredrick Wentworth nor Miss Anne Elliot came to life for me the way (for example) Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennett did in [Pride and Prejudice]. Even so, I enjoyed reading this classic comedy of manners, a romantic story where all ends well. And why shouldn’t it?
    • 4/5
      Anne Elliot has lived with regret over being persuaded to reject the love of her life when she was very young. The objections to this match - money - were quickly assuaged when the man went to war and earned his fortune. But, until now, no contact had been initiated. To her horror, Anne now has to live in close proximity to Captain Wentworth and watch him woo other women. Anne is the most mature of Austen's characters. Partly because she's the oldest, but also because she has accepted the mistakes she has made in the past, and forgiven herself. She handles tragedy and awkwardness with an aplomb which makes even Captain Wentworth believe nothing is amiss in her feelings. Sense and Sensibility has always been my favorite of Austen's books, but Persuasion comes in a close second because of the maturity of Anne's character and Austen's exquisite representation of pain endured for years.
    • 5/5
      I love this book! It is my favorite Austen love story. I can never decide what Jane Austen book is my all-time favorite (it seems to change every time I re-read one), but Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are by far my favorite couple. I love them both, and love their story. I will continue re-reading this with love and pleasure for the rest of my life