- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Hodder/Headline Audiobooks (June 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1859980163
- ISBN-13: 978-1859980163
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A novel by Emma Tennant which offers a sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". It is read by Juliet Stevenson.
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1.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Miss Bingly must have written this book!, July 23 2007
By Elizabeth - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Unequal Marriage (Paperback)
What a Horrible, HORRIBLE book! The sitcom-esq ending where everything is wrapped up in the last 3 pages as all a big misunderstanding do nothing to save this book.After 19 years of marriage Elizabeth and Darcy are "sooo" much in love, that is until they receive some bad news, and Darcy concludes that he made a mistake in perusing Elizabeth after he learned of her family's insanity all those years ago. AND TELLS HER SO! Elizabeth, in turn, realizes that Darcy is a "monster," and wishes for equality of the sexes so that she may get a divorce. Her realization of her superior character is what inspires the title of "an unequal marriage." This also leads her to become bitter about Jane's happiness.
Of the 180 so pages of this book over 170 are dedicated to the hatred and resentment of the Darcys. This book is written from bitterness and contempt of love. It has nothing to do with the original sentiments of Austin, and is uninteresting and depressing in its own right. The shortness of the book make it undeveloped and do nothing to justify the stream ill events and bad feelings.
The book only serves as a laundry list of bad happenings and despair only to have the curtain whipped aside at the very end to say "silly Elizabeth, none of that's true - now lets go to Italy and be Rich!" All of the fair-weather love and weak loyalties are supposed to be forgotten in the end pronouncement of an undying and strong love. This sentiment is our reward for wading through the dreadfulness of the book.
Silly reader! Don't waste your time, money or good feelings on this wretched excuse for a story of love.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disgusting tripe - deserves negative stars, May 13 2008
By Christopher H. Hodgkin "chodgkin" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Unequal Marriage (Paperback)
Apparently this "author" (I use the term reluctantly, since I have great respect for true authors) figured this would be a cheap and easy way to try to get some attention by leveraging her book off the Jane Austen oeuvre and making money by springboarding off Jane's good name (and those of her characters).Ms. Tennant has presumably read all the words in Pride and Prejudice, but she cannot have read it with any understanding or insight into the characters, because her Elizabeth and Darcy bear no resemblance to Jane's in anything but name.
Don't encourage this author by buying her book. Fortunately, I read a library copy so didn't contribute anything to her coffers or encourage her in any way to trash any more of Austen's work.
Would that I could give this negative stars, but sadly Amazon doesn't (yet) allow this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Definately NOT Pride & Prejudice, Aug 17 2007
By A Reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: An Unequal Marriage (Paperback)
These thoughts kept popping into my head - This is not what Elizabeth would say! This is not how Darcy would react! Bingley would never do this!! and so on ...If one were to read this book entirely on it's own, then I would say that it is a passable book and relatively easy to breeze through. But to say that this is a sequal to a most beloved classic, that would be too much.
The characters in this book bear no resemblance whatsoever to the original book which it claims to be a continuation of.
Most disappointing ...
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