Tag Archives: Jane Austen

Ordinary Villainy, Or How I Learned To Appreciate The Moralizing Of Realistic Fiction

Posted on March 16, 2021 by nathanalbright

One of the aspects of realistic fiction that is often appreciated by literary scholars is that realistic fiction is less moralistic than melodrama, which often explicitly punished those characters that transgressed moral and social codes. Yet there is still moralizing … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Complete Confectioner

Posted on February 6, 2021 by nathanalbright

The Complete Confectioner, or, The Whole Art of Confecionary, Made Easy, by Frederick Nutt This book is a deeply interesting book, and its contents open up a view into the world of dining for English elites in the period of … Continue reading →

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Teach Us To Understand The Sinfulness Of Our Own Hearts

Posted on December 2, 2019 by nathanalbright

“Teach us to understand the sinfulness of our own hearts, and bring to our knowledge every fault of temper and every evil habit in which we have indulged to the discomfort of our fellow-creatures, and the danger of our own … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Annotated Pride & Prejudice

Posted on November 29, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Annotated Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen One of the pleasures of reading the same books over and over again is seeking to find different ways for those works to be presented and for different elements to enrich one’s … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Jane Austen: The Secret Radical

Posted on November 29, 2019 by nathanalbright

Jane Austen:  The Secret Radical, by Helena Kelly When one is reading and interpreting a sufficiently complex and layered text, our interpretation of the text reveals more about ourselves than the text we are dealing with.  This happens frequently when … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lost In Austen

Posted on November 29, 2019 by nathanalbright

Lost In Austen:  Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure, by Emma Campbell Webster This book was amusing.  If you are a fan of Jane Austen’s novels, and the author assumes that the reader is going to identify with Elizabeth Bennet … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy

Posted on November 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Private Diary Of Mr. Darcy, by Maya Slater This novel falls prey to one of the main failings of novels about the Regency era written by contemporary writers, and that is the tendency to be cynical about the virtue … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Darcy’s Story

Posted on November 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

Darcy’s Story, by Janet Aylmer This book does something worthwhile that is harder to do than it might seem at first, and that is to rearrange and reframe the story of Pride & Prejudice while retaining as much as possible … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man In The World

Posted on November 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy:  The Last Man In The World, by Abigail Reynolds This particular book is a Pride & Prejudice Variation, where the author has chosen to change Pride & Prejudice at a point and then explore a changed scenario … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Year Without Summer

Posted on June 8, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Year Without Summer:  1816 And The Volcano That Darkened The World And Changed History, by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman I must admit that I was not greatly impressed with this book.  That is not necessarily the … Continue reading →

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