Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventureby Emma Campbell Webster
Riverhead Books, 2007. 352 pgs. Fiction
Your name: Elizabeth Bennet. Your mission: to marry both prudently and for love, avoiding family scandal. Equipped with only your sharp wit, natural good sense, and tolerable beauty, you must navigate your way through a variety of decisions that will determine your own romantic (and financial) fate. Ever wonder what would happen if Elizabeth accepted Mr. Darcy’s proposal the first time around? Or ran from his arms into those of Persuasion’s Captain Wentworth? Now is your chance to find out.
This grown-up Choose Your Own Adventure novel is an irresistible draw for any Janeite. Although the book is essentially a retelling of all Austen’s novels, the enjoyment comes in imagining what would have happened if Elizabeth Bennet had married Willoughby or Mr. Knightley rather than Mr. Darcy. Elizabeth’s fate often ends in failure (or worse), but the novel is all in good fun.
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