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Jane Austen Books and the Many, Many Adaptations and Retellings of her Stories December, 2023 |
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Collagist Fabe adds flair to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with 39 original illustrations that accompany the unabridged text. Fabe's collages overlay bright, watercolor-washed scenes with retro cut-paper figures and objects sampled from fashion magazines from the 1930s to the '50s. Accompanying each tableau is a quote from the Pride and Prejudice passage that inspired it. Like Austen's book, Fabe's work explores arcane customs of beauty and courtship, pageantry and social artifice: in one collage, a housewife holds a tray of drinks while a man sits happily with a sandwich in hand in the distance. While tinged with irony and more than a dash of social commentary, the collages nevertheless have a spirit of glee and evidence deep reverence for the novel. As Fabe describes in a preface, Austen "was a little bit mean-the way real people are mean-so there are both heroes and nincompoops. Family is both beloved and annoying. That is Austen's genius, her ability to describe people in all their frailty and humor." This is a sweet and visually appealing homage.
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The Bennet Women [sound recording]
In this delightfully modern spin on Pride and Prejudice , love is a goal, marriage is a distant option, and self-discovery is a sure thing. Welcome to Bennet House, the only all-women's dorm at prestigious Longbourn University, home to three close friends who are about to have an eventful year. EJ is an ambitious Black engineering student. Her best friend, Jamie, is a newly out trans woman studying French and theatre. Tessa is a Filipina astronomy major with guy trouble. For them, Bennet House is more than a residence--it's an oasis of feminism, femininity, and enlightenment. But as great as Longbourn is for academics, EJ knows it can be a wretched place to find love. Yet the fall season is young and brimming with surprising possibilities. Jamie's prospect is Lee Gregory, son of a Hollywood producer and a gentleman so charming he practically sparkles. That leaves EJ with Lee's arrogant best friend, Will. For Jamie's sake, EJ must put up with the disagreeable, distressingly handsome, not quite famous TV actor for as long as she can. What of it? EJ has her eyes on a bigger prize, anyway: launching a spectacular engineering career in the "real world" she's been hearing so much about. But what happens when all their lives become entwined in ways no one could have predicted--and EJ finds herself drawn to a man who's not exactly a perfect fit for the future she has planned?
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Longbourn
by Jo Baker
A reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the romance, intrigue and drama of the Bennet household from the sideline perspective of Sara, an orphaned housemaid who becomes subject to the arrival of the militia and the attentions of an ambitious former slave.
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Written in the stars : a novel
by Alexandria Bellefleur
A lighthearted holiday romance inspired by Pride and Prejudice depicts the experiences of a free-spirited social media astrologer who agrees to a fake relationship with a no-nonsense actuary to appease their respective families. Original. 40,000 first printing.
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Mary B : a novel
by Katherine J. Chen
The awkward middle child of five, Mary Bennet, who loses herself in the secret pleasures of reading and writing in 19th-century England, soon discovers that her fictional creations are no match for the very real scandal, tragedy and romance that come into her life.
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Debating Darcy
by Sayantani DasGupta
A life-long speech competitor, Leela Bose meets her match in Firoze Darcy, a debater from an elite private school, and as the tournament progresses, Leela finds her own winning streak at stake—as well as her heart. Simultaneous eBook.
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Death comes to Pemberley
Preparations for the Darcy's annual ball are abruptly halted when the body of a dead man is discovered on Pemberley estate
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Pride and prejudice and mistletoe
by Melissa De la Cruz
Forced by her mother's illness to return to the Pemberley of her childhood during the Christmas holidays, power-driven professional Darcy Fitzwilliam unexpectedly falls for humble carpenter Luke Bennet, a member of a family of slacker brothers. By the best-selling author of Witches of East End.
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Bridget Jones's diary : a novel
by Helen Fielding
Chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirtysomething woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and the other baffling complexities of modern life
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Bridget Jones's diary
Bridget, a single career woman, is torn between her disreputable boss, Daniel Cleaver, and Mark Darcy, a disagreeable, but attractive acquaintance
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The murder of Mr. Wickham
by Claudia Gray
Featuring Jane Austen's leading literary characters, this mystery follows two young guests at a house party where they attempt to solve the murder of Mr. Wickham, a con-artist with a slew of enemies, before the wrong person hangs for the crime. Original.
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The heiress : the revelations of Anne de Bourgh
by Molly Greeley
A reimagining of the story of Jane Austen's mysterious character depicts a rejected young heiress who fights a life-long addiction before discovering health and passion in the London home of her cousin, Colonel John Fitzwilliam. 75,000 first printing.
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The other Bennet sister : a novel
by Janice Hadlow
A reimagining of the story of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice spinster, Mary Bennet, finds her navigating limited cultural expectations before embracing her intellectual identity and making her own choices about her future. A first novel.
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Ayesha at last
by Uzma Jalaluddin
A modern Muslim adaptation of Pride and Prejudice finds a reluctant teacher who would avoid an arranged marriage setting aside her literary ambitions before falling in love with her perpetually single cousin's infuriatingly conservative fiancé. Original.
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Death comes to Pemberley : [a novel]
by P. D. James
Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered
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Unmarriageable : a novel
by Soniah Kamal
A retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in modern-day Pakistan, finds a practical-minded teacher from a family of sisters evaluating her resolve never to marry after encountering a brusque but compelling man during a series of lavish wedding parties
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A certain appeal
by Vanessa King
While working at a Manhattan burlesque club, Liz Bennet thinks she feels sparks with an uptight, wealth manager audience member and the pair find themselves thrown into each other's orbits repeatedly in a modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Original.
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Lizzy & Jane
by Katherine Reay
"A story of two sisters, bound together by family, food, and a passion for Jane Austen"
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Eligible : a novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon. Simultaneous.
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Eligible : a novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon.
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Dragonshadow
by Elle Katharine White
Warrior newlyweds Aliza and Alastair must head north to Castle Selwyn to aid them in killing a new monster, but the dragon riders are followed by an ancient evil and Aliza realizes the real war is just beginning
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Pride
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice traces the experiences of a proud Brooklyn woman from a large, underprivileged family of sisters who clashes with a wealthy, arrogant newcomer. 75,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Emma : 200th-anniversary annotated edition
by Jane Austen
"The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage--now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Beautiful, clever, rich--and single--Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition celebrates two hundred years of Austen's beloved novel. With a beautiful cover designed by illustrator Dadu Shin and comprehensive notes drawing specially from the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher College, this is an edition to be treasured by students and collectors alike. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators"
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Emma [sound recording]
by Jane Austen
A timeless coming-of-age story follows the adventures of the self-assured and accomplished Emma, a 21-year-old girl of privilege who believes she is immune to romance and has several chaotic and often humorous experiences. Read by Nadia May.
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Clueless / "Whatever!" Edition
Cher is the most popular girl at Beverly Hills High, and spends her time becoming very involved with her friends and with trying to find love
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The Emma project : a novel
by Sonali Dev
When she runs into Vansh Raje, who she hoped never to see again after getting out of a 10-year-long fake relationship with his brother, Knightlina, working to bring economic independence to millions of women in South Asia, wonders if a no-strings-attached affair is worth risking her life's work for. Original.
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Kamila knows best
by Farah Heron
Too busy with her friends' love lives, hardly giving thought to her own, Kamila Hussain refuses to let herself get distracted by her growing feelings for a longtime friend of the family until her secret nemesis sets her sights on him. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Emma : a modern retelling [sound recording]
The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself. Happily, this summer brings many new faces to Highbury and into the sphere of Emma's not always perfectly felicitous council: Harriet Smith, a naive teacher's assistant at the ESL school run by the hippie-ish Mrs. Goddard; Frank Churchill, the attractive stepson of Emma's former governess; and, of course, the perfect Jane Fairfax. This Emma is wise, witty, and totally enchanting, and will appeal equally to Sandy's multitude of fans and the enormous community of wildly enthusiastic Austen aficionados.
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Polite society
by Mahesh Rao
In a modern reimagining of Jane Austen's Emma, Delhi's polite society is often anything but polite. By the award-winning author of The Smoke Is Rising.
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Where the rhythm takes you
by Sarah Dass
Presents a romantic, mesmerizing story of first love and second chances, all to the tunes of sweet soca music
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Recipe for persuasion : a novel
by Sonali Dev
The author of Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors adapts Jane Austen’s Persuasion in the story of a chef who partners with her celebrity first love during a reality-show competition she hopes will save her restaurant.
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The stars we steal
by Alexa Donne
Seeking a wealthy husband who will save her family from ruin, Princess Leonie, the heir to a faded European spaceship, clashes with her first love, a successful whiskey ship captain her family once deemed unsuitable. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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All stirred up : a novel
by Brianne Moore
A tale inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion follows the efforts of a woman to save her family’s struggling eatery in the face of a celebrity chef ex who would open a competing restaurant. Original.
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Persuasion
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off an engagement to Capt. Wentworth, but tensions are resumed when they meet again eight years later
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By the Book
by Julia Sonneborn
An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fiance has just become the president of her college--and her new boss--in this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic Persuasion. Anne Corey is about to get schooled. An English professor in California, she's determined to score a position on the coveted tenure track at her college. All she's got to do is get a book deal, snag a promotion, and boom! She's in. But then Adam Martinez--her first love and ex-fiance--shows up as the college's new president. Anne should be able to keep herself distracted. After all, she's got a book to write, an aging father to take care of, and a new romance developing with the college's insanely hot writer-in-residence. But no matter where she turns, there's Adam, as smart and sexy as ever. As the school year advances and her long-buried feelings begin to resurface, Anne begins to wonder whether she just might get a second chance at love. Funny, smart, and full of heart, this modern ode to Jane Austen's classic explores what happens when we run into the demons of our past ... and when they turn out not to be so bad, after all.
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Sense and sensibility
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a husband, but neither Elinor's reason nor Marianne's passion can lead them to perfect happiness-as Marianne falls for an unscrupulous rascal and Elinor becomes attached to a man who's already engaged. Startling secrets, unexpected twists, and heartless betrayals interrupt the marriage games that follow. Filled with satiric wit and subtle characterizations, Sense and Sensibility teaches that true love requires a balance of reason and emotion.
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Incense and sensibility : a novel
by Sonali Dev
After his friend is injured in a hate-fueled incident at a campaign rally, California's first Indian gubernatorial candidate turns to a stress management coach/yogi in the new novel from the author of Recipe for Persuasion. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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Sense and Sensibility
BBC mini-series adaptation of Jane Austen's story of love. Two sisters find themselves in a poor financial state and unsuitable for a proper marriage. Through hardship and heartbreak they find true love.
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Sense and sensibility
Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along and find the husbands they wish
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Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious house.
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Northanger Abbey
by Val McDermid
Issued as part of a series designed to introduce Austen's classics to a new generation of readers, a modern retelling finds bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joining her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falling for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets. By the award-winning author of the Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries.
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Northanger Abbey
Enamoured with gothic romance novels, Catherine Moreland projects her fantasies on the inhabitants of a great estate, jeopardizing her chances with a rich suitor
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Ghosted : a Northanger Abbey novel
by Amanda Quain
Partnered with new student Kit for an investigative project on Northanger Abbey's paranormal activity, Hattie soon realizes he might be the kind of person who makes her want to believe in something?—?and someone?—?for the first time. 50,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Northranger
by Rey Terciero
"In this swoony and spooky teen summer romance graphic novel set on a Texas ranch, sixteen-year-old Cade Muänoz finds himself falling for the ranch owner's mysterious and handsome son, only to discover that he may be harboring a dangerous secret"
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Hearts, strings, and other breakable things
by Jacqueline Firkins
Enduring her final summer before college with wealthy relatives who would distract her from the loss of her mother, Edie finds herself drawn to both her childhood best friend and a local bad boy.
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Austenland /
Jane, a single thirty-something, who is obsessed with Jane Austen travels to a British resort called Austenland, where the era of Jane Austen is recreated
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Death and sensibility
by Elizabeth Blake
The owner of a bookstore investigates after the keynote speaker at the Jane Austin Society conference she's hosting turns up dead of a suspicious heart attack in the second addition to the series following Pride, Prejudice and Poison.
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Pride, prejudice & poison
by Elizabeth Blake
In an Austen-tatious debut, antiquarian bookstore proprietor Erin Coleridge uses her sense and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society.
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The Jane Austen Project [sound recording]
London, 1815: Two travelers, Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane, arrive in a field in rural England, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. Turned away at a nearby inn, they are forced to travel by coach all night to London. They are not what they seem, but rather colleagues who have come back in time from a technologically advanced future, posing as wealthy West Indies planters, a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren₂t the first team from the future to 'go back,' their mission is by far the most audacious: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen herself.
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The Jane Austen book club
by Karen Joy Fowler
As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love, in a comedy of contemporary manners. By the author of Sarah Canary.
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Jane in love : a novel
by Rachel Givney
Searching for a radical solution to a lifetime of spinsterhood, Jane Austen is accidentally transported 200 years into the future onto a Hollywood film set of Northanger Abbey. Original. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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The Jane Austen society
by Natalie Jenner
A group of disparate bibliophiles bands together in the small English village of Chawton in the hopes of restoring the final home of Jane Austen, revealing their respective losses along the way. A first novel.
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The Jane Austen Society
by Natalie Jenner
"Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable"
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Dear Mr. Knightley : a novel
by Katherine Reay
When an anonymous benefactor (calling himself "Mr. Knightley") offers to put orphan Samantha Moore through the prestigious Medill School of Journalism, his only requirement is for Sam to write frequent letters to the mysterious donor, detailing her progress. Original.
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