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Jane Austen's Charlotte, [Paperback]

Julia, Barrett (Author)
2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)


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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Evans (2000)
  • ASIN: B001E0APEQ
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,841,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible and off-base, October 19, 2000
By A Customer
This novel is a travesty. That Ms. Barrett would even presume to complete the work of one of the greatest English authors is audacity personified. This book is extremely boring and seemingly plotless. If you're looking for a satisfying completion to this novel choose "Sandition" by Jane Austen and "Another Lady" instead. Ms. Barrett not only fails to deliver the wittiness and sharp insight of a Jane Austen novel, she also fails miserably at attempting Austen's style of writing. Truly a disappointment, to put it mildly.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Barrett destroyed Austen's story, June 18, 2000
By A Customer
Jane Austen's fragment is a delightful story which is ruined with the first sentence Julia Barrett writes. In it she has Charlotte repeat the joke the narrator has just told. The language becomes convoluted and flowery. All the characters sound like Sir Edward Denham but without the poetry quotations. There is very little action of any kind in the book. Jane Austen's characters fade into the background and the new ones introduced by Barrett take over the story. Charlotte, Lady Denham and Sidney Parker seem to change character completely as soon as Barrett takes over the writing. She takes six or more pages to say what Austen would have put in a couple of sentences. What plot there is bears little resemblence to anything Jane Austen seems to have had in mind.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not a purist, but disappointed all the same..., August 22, 2000
By A Customer
I am always eager to read completions of Jane Austen's work, unlike those who find it unthinkable that anyone should touch the gems she left behind. I find Ms. Barrett's work disappointing, however, because it appears to me that it lacks the subtlety and charm so characteristic of Jane Austen's: the minimal changes of place and scene, the delicate development of character through conversation and observation, the wry humor she employs and the focus of thought and action through the eyes of her primary characters. This Charlotte is too full of inconsistencies of characterization and plot (Lady Denham throwing lavish entertainments? Lurid tales of piracy and gambling?) for me, and I didn't enjoy reading it. I liked Sanditon by Another Lady much better - I think she did a lovely job of capturing JA's essence and finishing the novel in a manner more consistent with it's original author's style and pattern.
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