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Cargando... Jane Fairfax: The Secret Story of the Second Heroine in Jane Austen's Emma (1990)por Joan Aiken
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Jane Fairfax is a secondary character in Jane Austen’s Emma. Aiken imagines a back story for Jane, with only the last third of this novel occupying the same chronological space as Austen’s Emma. I found it entertaining, yet I couldn’t completely buy into Aiken’s characterization of Jane Fairfax. I never really liked Emma, it's my least favorite Austen novel, but Jane was one of the characters that I actually found tolerable. So when I saw this book I decided to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. Not only did it add a greater depth to her character, it also made Frank Churchill less annoying... surprisingly. A very enjoyable book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Joan Aiken takes Emma and tells the story from Jane Fairfax's point of view. What of Jane's early years with Mrs and Miss Bates and her childhood friendship with Emma Woodhouse? What of her years spent with the Campbells in London and the West Indies? And what of the summer spent at Weymouth? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This was not at all what I was expecting when I imagined what Emma would be like if told from Jane Fairfax’s POV. I was imaging the book being a romantic history of how she and Frank Churchill became secretly engaged. I imagined scenes from Emma with Frank and Jane, seen from afar, when it looked like nothing was going on, but there was. What were they saying in those scenes?
But this isn’t a romance, and it was a bit gloomier than I was expecting. Even so, I thought the author did a fantastic job of expanding on little details from the original book to portray Jane’s childhood in Highbury and her relationship with Emma, her life with the Campbells, and eventually, how she and Frank came to be engaged. It was much better than what I could imagine, and I was completely drawn in.
I was hoping to get a better angle on Frank, maybe think more highly of him, but while he was often sweet to Jane, he was so insensitive when he was working his ruse, I wanted to smack him.
The ending was super abrupt. I turned the page and couldn’t believe the book was done. It was a nice last scene, but I wish it had been longer and more hopeful about a friendship between Emma and Jane.
That quibble aside, I thought this was a great, well-imagined retelling. ( )