Austenland: A Novel

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Jul 2, 2013 - Fiction - 196 pages
Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Predjudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
3
Section 3
11
Section 4
21
Section 5
32
Section 6
46
Section 7
47
Section 8
59
Section 17
104
Section 18
109
Section 19
116
Section 20
117
Section 21
124
Section 22
125
Section 23
134
Section 24
135

Section 9
60
Section 10
69
Section 11
70
Section 12
74
Section 13
79
Section 14
80
Section 15
89
Section 16
90
Section 25
146
Section 26
155
Section 27
171
Section 28
179
Section 29
194
Section 30
195
Section 31
201
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About the author (2013)

Shannon Hale is the New York Times bestselling author of six young adult novels, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, and two other books for adults, The Actor and the Housewife and a second Austenland book, Midnight in Austenland. She has also cowritten two graphic novels, Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack, with her husband, Dean Hale. They live with their four small children near Salt Lake City, Utah.

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