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Book Review of Longbourn

Longbourn
Longbourn
Author: Jo Baker
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
Book Type: Paperback


The characters and events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice"
provide the background, while the dour lives of their servants who were barely mentioned and mostly unnamed, provide the focus in this keenly observed view of "the lower orders."
The resulting picture of the underbelly of Austen's society world becomes almost a pastiche of a Thomas Hardy novel.