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Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Mansfield Park

July 28, 2016 by narfna 15 Comments

This is the fourth in my series of posts wherein I get weird and write reviews for classic books in the form of letters to the characters. I’m re-reading all of Jane Austen’s books in 2016, and it has so far been lovely, even with this one. May was Mansfield Park month, and I was looking forward to it, as it has been my least favorite Austen since I first read it, and thought that might make for an interesting reading experience. In fact, until now, it’s the only one of her books I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: British, classics, Jane Austen, letters to fictional characters, mansfield park, narfna, Satire, The Great Austen Re-Read 2016

narfna's CBR8 Review No:93 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: British, classics, Jane Austen, letters to fictional characters, mansfield park, narfna, Satire, The Great Austen Re-Read 2016 ·
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Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Sense and Sensibility

February 18, 2016 by narfna 21 Comments

A couple of years ago for CBR6, I re-read Jane Eyre, and because I was overwhelmed with the task of writing a review for such a classic book, I decided to get weird and write the review in the form of letters to the characters. Since then, with an eventual plan to re-read all of Jane Austen’s books, I’ve had it in the back of my mind that I’d do the same with as many future classic books that I could. So. This is me […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: classics, comedy of manners, Fiction, Jane Austen, juliet stevenson, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, romance, Satire, sense and sensibility, The Great Austen Re-Read 2016

narfna's CBR8 Review No:29 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance · Tags: classics, comedy of manners, Fiction, Jane Austen, juliet stevenson, letters to fictional characters, Literature, narfna, romance, Satire, sense and sensibility, The Great Austen Re-Read 2016 ·
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