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MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES: Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights

Spinsterhood or Mummification!

Ancient Egypt infiltrates Regency England in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic monster parody of Jane Austen's classic novel.

Our gentle yet indomitable heroine Fanny Price must hold steadfast not only against the seductive charms of Henry Crawford but also an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh!

Meanwhile, the indubitably handsome and kind hero Edmund attempts Exorcisms... Miss Crawford vamps out... Aunt Norris channels her inner werewolf... The Mummy-mesmerized Lady Bertram collects Egyptian artifacts...

There can be no doubt that Mansfield Park has become a battleground for the forces of Ancient Evil and Regency True Love!

Gentle Reader -- this Delightful Edition includes Scholarly Footnotes and Appendices.

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  • Paperback: 568 pages
  • Publisher: Curiosities (November 16, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1607620472
  • ISBN-13: 978-1607620471
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Laughed Myself Silly, December 18, 2009
By Leigh H. Kimmel (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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Imagine the scene -- as I'm sitting there reading, I come to a particularly hilarious bit and start cracking up, and my husband looks up from his computer with a most decidedly odd expression. So I have to explain to him exactly why I should find a scene of an Egyptian mummy being raised from the dead hilarious. After all, aren't reanimated mummies usually the stuff of horror movies, tromping about in search of their next victim?

Except Mansfield Park and Mummies is not horror. Not at all. Instead of a monster that's a Menace because it's a Menace, the revivified Pharaoh East Wind, now calling himself Lord Eastwind and enjoying the sartorial splendor of a Regency gentleman, is a witty chap who just happens to have this little problem. Every so often he has to top off his supply of the Breath of Life, and out of deference to the lady of the house under whose roof he is a guest, he is constrained to take only a small portion of the life force of any one of the servants. Which he does with utmost politeness, wooing them with dreams of Egypt and exotic beauty, and leaving them missing a little time and feeling most decidedly odd.

And he's a bit of a romantic, and is certain that Fanny Price must be his long-lost love of thirty centuries gone by. Yes, here we have an undead who is genuinely capable of love, and of having his heart broken upon the steadfast devotion of the object of his affection for the rather dour seminarian Edmund. And thus even the final defeat of the Mummy's Curse has its poignancy, and leaves me thinking, "and seal it with a kiss."
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer joy, December 15, 2009
By Marian Crane (Phoenix, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews
A friend got this book for me as a Christmas gift,
since Jung's new _Liber Novus_ was a little beyond
her means.

I read _Mansfield Park and Mummies_ in one weekend,
with howls of laughter, then re-read it with fewer
giggles and more introspection. Poor Jane Austen has
had many irreverent and awkward send-ups over the last
decade. Many of her newer literary 'collaborators'
have only a smirking relationship with their source
material, sampling it randomly and layering it with
a slick, hip, high-fructose current-culture candy
shell to make it palatable to commercial fiction readers.

Ms. Nazarian's take has genuine affection for, and
understanding of, Austen's tone and background. Rather
than zombies shoehorned into the Regency, the budding
Egyptomania in her version of _Mansfield_ leads to a
hysterical comedy of class and errors, laced with
enough gags to stand beside 'She Stoops to Conquer',
'Jeeves and Wooster', and the Marx Brothers.

Readers who enjoyed the humor and Egyptology in Elizabeth
Peters 'Peabody' novels might really like this. Casual fans
of Austen should delight in it. And Austen scholars, recoiling
in horror from the recent Zombiefests, should give this one
a try. It's gold, and I can't wait for Nazarian's next foray
into the Austenverse.
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16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Mummies? Jane Austen? What's not to like?!!!!, November 23, 2009
By Mary A. Turzillo "Marite" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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One word: hysterical.

I don't know how Nazarian does it, but she manages to meld two eras, two vastly different sensibilities, and two protagonists separated by a couple thousand years (and layers of bandages) into an entertaining tale that had me, for one, bent over with laughter.

If you liked PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, or if you know anybody who does, you have to have this book.

Additionally, you might consider it as a Christmas gift, that is if you know anybody demented enough to think the curse of the mummy belongs in the Regency period. And frankly, don't we all know demented people?

What would Jane Austen herself have thought of Nazarian's sendup? It's hard to say, but we must remember that Mansfield Park was written only four years before Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Food for thought . . . .
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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining entry into the Austen with monsters subgenre
Nazarian does a nice job integrating Egyptology, mummies and the occasional werewolf and vampire into "Mansfield Park," and making the original novel a bit more fun (it's not my... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Catherine Lundoff

5.0 out of 5 stars Fanny Price: Mummy Slayer
I have always thought that Mansfield Park is the weakest of all of Jane Austin's books. The heroine, Fanny Price is a weaker character than Elizabeth Bennett and less interesting... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Tracy S. Morris

5.0 out of 5 stars Mansfield Park Meets The Mummy
Nazarian has managed to capture the voice, style, and plot of a Jane Austen novel and married this to a plot that would have made a good Mummy movie prequel. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Linda J. Dunn

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