Books by Julia Barrett and Complete Book Reviews
Julia Barrett, Author M. Evans and Company $21.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-87131-908-1
The author of two sequels to Jane Austen novels (The Third Sister and Presumption), Barrett now sets out to complete Austen's last book. When she died in 1817, Austen left behind 11 chapters of a novel chronicling the growth and demise of Sanditon,...
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Julia Barrett, Author M. Evans and Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87131-736-0
Aside from the intelligence native to its title, this continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has little to commend it. Barrett (the pseudonym of writers Julia Braun Kessler and Gabrielle Donnelly) essentially reassigns the plights of...
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Julia Barrett, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55611-496-0
""He has an innate propriety and simplicity of taste, which in general direct him perfectly right,'' remarks Elinor Dashwood of her suitor, Edward Ferrars, in Sense and Sensibility. Would that the same could be said of this work, an ambitious but...
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