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Our novel may not come soon ... Described as "the best tribute to Jane Austen" by Stephenie Meyer herself, already made into a movie, this variation around Pride 's and Prejudice features a young woman completely obsessed with Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth or rather playing Mr Darcy) ... This is Maid in Austenland, password journal Shannon Hale!
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In 1996 (or 1997), my little brother Jeff came to me with a problem: he had to read Pride and Prejudice for its English courses from high school and he was not able to return in the language or the world of this author. This novel, undoubtedly the masterpiece of Jane Austen, has always password journal been part of my favorites. At that time, I had already read it three times for my pleasure. I tried to talk to Jeff on the context of the work of Austen to help with reading, password journal I tried to read it with him, but he still could not read it. Some books just are not made for everyone.
My friend Shauna told me, with great enthusiasm, a BBC miniseries adapted from the novel, and, thinking that the film would see Jeff became interested password journal in reading this, I rented a copy. We watched in the basement of my parents, Jeff, me and my boyfriend from college, Dean (who, after many ups and downs, more separations and distance relationship, later became my husband. But , that's another story ...).
I must say it was a pretty intense and rather embarrassing experience. Put yourself in my shoes and imagine yourself sitting next to your boyfriend while you fall madly in love quickly and another man. For those who have not seen this adaptation, let me tell you that this has nothing to do with feeling desire password journal for a Matthew McConaughey shirtless in a romantic comedy. password journal No, it's much more than that. This is true love. It's password journal painful and unbelievable. This is Mr Darcy Colin Firth.
Darcy-mania has gripped password journal me and never left me for days and days. I saw some parts of the series, I read the novel, I dreamed day and night. password journal It was intoxicating and not practical at all because Colin Firth is Mr Darcy, Mr Darcy that does not exist, but if true, he would have lived 200 years earlier. We can say that the relationship was doomed to fail in some way.
I was ashamed, but I quickly realized password journal that I was far from alone in suffering from this disease ... My closest friends were hiding the same secret. And it was enough that I pronounce the name of Mr Darcy in perfect unknowns password journal for me to realize that they hid the same obsession. We were all fans of the novels of Jane Austen, but there was something in this television adaptation that transformed this story. With a simple classic novel, intelligent and charming, she was entering a fantasy that grabs you and does not let go. Mr Darcy. Oh, Mr Darcy! How to fulfill this fantasy of Mr Darcy that haunted us all?
It was shortly after seeing the movie for the first time that the idea of this story where women would stay in a world inspired by Jane Austen to live as in the days of the Regency area came to me. I have new ideas for stories almost every day, but I could not forget it. I remember in the fall of 1999, I was walking on the campus of the University of Montana and I thought that this story would make a good news. But the story I wanted to tell not at all like what we wrote in my course of literary password journal writing, where Raymond Carver, Alice Munro and Marcel Proust reigned supreme. I imagined what would have thought well teachers and students password journal in my class Jane Martin and Mr Nobley. They would have laughed DE, not WITH these characters. Or worse, they would have despised.
But the idea of this story has not left me and, in the fall of 2000 between two rewrites of The Goose Girl, my first young adult novel, I began to write the story of Jane. It took me six years to complete.
I have noticed in myself and my friends, a tendency to hide, or at least minimize the importance that we give to this type of film and how they made us dream. We wanted to be modern, feminist women, intellectual, not women addicted to fantasy blue flower! For me it was interesting to try to understand why we were ashamed of any ch