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Truth & Triumph: A Pride & Prejudice Reimagining
Pride & Prejudice falls into the era of post World War II!
It's a fact, not often understood, that when going on a journey, it is not the destination that is the point; it is the journey that counts. Always it is the journey that counts!
'The Six Women of Kent' was a painting that once belonged to the Bennet family in New York when they had it taken to Berlin to be put on display in the 1830s. Years later, when the world was thrown into chaos and destruction in World War II, the painting was lost, and the Bennet family had been raised on the history of it ever since, including Liz Bennet, one of the Bennet daughters.
At the end of World War II, Liz Bennet, strong and adventurous, chooses to leave her family to travel to Germany with one of her sisters, where the painting was last recorded to be. She joins her friend, Louisa Musgrove, through the Army Exchange Services, who is traveling with her husband, Captain Benwick. When there, she searches for the painting, but while there she sees the devastation and aftermath of war, but tries to remain with her positive demeanor. Yet while there, she runs into an old acquaintance, Mr. Darcy, and their previous relationship falls back into place and they are both repulsed and drawn to each other. Yet there appears to be more behind this British officer than appears. And behind his heart as well. Follow this new adventure of Lizzy Bennet and her Mr. Darcy!
It's a fact, not often understood, that when going on a journey, it is not the destination that is the point; it is the journey that counts. Always it is the journey that counts!
'The Six Women of Kent' was a painting that once belonged to the Bennet family in New York when they had it taken to Berlin to be put on display in the 1830s. Years later, when the world was thrown into chaos and destruction in World War II, the painting was lost, and the Bennet family had been raised on the history of it ever since, including Liz Bennet, one of the Bennet daughters.
At the end of World War II, Liz Bennet, strong and adventurous, chooses to leave her family to travel to Germany with one of her sisters, where the painting was last recorded to be. She joins her friend, Louisa Musgrove, through the Army Exchange Services, who is traveling with her husband, Captain Benwick. When there, she searches for the painting, but while there she sees the devastation and aftermath of war, but tries to remain with her positive demeanor. Yet while there, she runs into an old acquaintance, Mr. Darcy, and their previous relationship falls back into place and they are both repulsed and drawn to each other. Yet there appears to be more behind this British officer than appears. And behind his heart as well. Follow this new adventure of Lizzy Bennet and her Mr. Darcy!
315 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 12, 2016
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Michelle M.
10 books6 followersHello Readers! I am Michelle M., I like long walks on the beach, deep conversations... oh very well, that is actually not the case at all. I like lots of depth, yes, but every now and again, I enjoy the occasional nonsense that makes life amusing. For without the ridiculous, where is the joy?
I am a novelist, screenwriter, and am grateful to any who stop by and read my works, because we know that there are thousands of us writers in search of a reader, therefore you help us all who are calling out always for someone who gives us a chance.
Read on, dear friends, always read on.
I am a novelist, screenwriter, and am grateful to any who stop by and read my works, because we know that there are thousands of us writers in search of a reader, therefore you help us all who are calling out always for someone who gives us a chance.
Read on, dear friends, always read on.
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April 29, 2016
Here's another insertion of Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet into a different period in history than this author's previous works. Interestingly, there's a bit of Forrest Gump in this post World War II imagining: Arthur C. Clarke (British author), Sir Edmund Hillary (famous mountain climber), Sam Wagstaff (art curator), C.S. Lewis, J. L. Tolkien, and Charles Williams (all British authors and members of the "Inklings" literary club) appear as characters weaving into the story.
For this author, history continues to repeat itself in varying settings and circumstances. As in most of Ms. Mitchell's previous books, Mr. Darcy and Miss Elizabeth here are distant relatives of those featured in Pride and Prejudice, which is a clever way to explain the differences in their personalities from the originals and yet still have elements of the source relationship in this current one. It is helpful but not essential to have read her previous books in order to follow and appreciate this one.
Elisa, or Liz, a 30-year-old aspiring author, feels driven to return to Germany from New York in order to locate an ancestral painting, "The Six Women of Kent," which was lost during the Nazi regime. She knows there's a family secret on the painting and hopes to solve the mystery as well as recovering this family treasure. She and her sister Kit travel abroad in the company of Captain and Louisa Benwick and observe the humiliated bearing of the German people and the devastated ruins of their cities first-hand.
The two Bennet sisters receive posts with the Army Exchange Services, putting Liz back into in the path of Mr. Willem Darcy. He is a British pilot who survived the war but continues in the military as a means of avoiding going back to England. Liz and Mr. Darcy had encountered each other at the same base before the war began and got off on the wrong foot, and they continue to treat each other with as much disdain as they did then. He's got a huge chip on his shoulder because he doesn't believe he can live up to his family's name, and she's absolutely convinced that she doesn't want to fall in love and marry. Their banter back and forth sounds much like Beatrice and Benedick-type volleys and is a lot of fun to read. In fact, for two people who claim to be enemies, it becomes obvious that they actually seek each other out, relish their verbal combat, and care about each other.
Gregorovich Wickham serves as a helpful initial contact for Liz in her search for the family painting. I think the arc of his storyline regarding his relationship with Darcy is particularly interesting and unique, since it is influenced by the behavior of the previous Wickhams in Ms. Mitchell's prior books.
This is a well written story, and this author always does a wonderful job of fitting the interactions of the literary characters with real ones into an accurate historical context. Darcy and Liz get plenty of face-to-face time along with lots of the aforementioned verbal foreplay, leading up to a couple of steamy scenes between the two of them.
My only criticism is the heavy reliance at times on conversation. In parts of the book, it feels slow because nothing much is actually happening, and Darcy doesn't enter the story at all until about one-quarter of the way in. It needs a bit more action.
For this author, history continues to repeat itself in varying settings and circumstances. As in most of Ms. Mitchell's previous books, Mr. Darcy and Miss Elizabeth here are distant relatives of those featured in Pride and Prejudice, which is a clever way to explain the differences in their personalities from the originals and yet still have elements of the source relationship in this current one. It is helpful but not essential to have read her previous books in order to follow and appreciate this one.
Elisa, or Liz, a 30-year-old aspiring author, feels driven to return to Germany from New York in order to locate an ancestral painting, "The Six Women of Kent," which was lost during the Nazi regime. She knows there's a family secret on the painting and hopes to solve the mystery as well as recovering this family treasure. She and her sister Kit travel abroad in the company of Captain and Louisa Benwick and observe the humiliated bearing of the German people and the devastated ruins of their cities first-hand.
The two Bennet sisters receive posts with the Army Exchange Services, putting Liz back into in the path of Mr. Willem Darcy. He is a British pilot who survived the war but continues in the military as a means of avoiding going back to England. Liz and Mr. Darcy had encountered each other at the same base before the war began and got off on the wrong foot, and they continue to treat each other with as much disdain as they did then. He's got a huge chip on his shoulder because he doesn't believe he can live up to his family's name, and she's absolutely convinced that she doesn't want to fall in love and marry. Their banter back and forth sounds much like Beatrice and Benedick-type volleys and is a lot of fun to read. In fact, for two people who claim to be enemies, it becomes obvious that they actually seek each other out, relish their verbal combat, and care about each other.
Gregorovich Wickham serves as a helpful initial contact for Liz in her search for the family painting. I think the arc of his storyline regarding his relationship with Darcy is particularly interesting and unique, since it is influenced by the behavior of the previous Wickhams in Ms. Mitchell's prior books.
This is a well written story, and this author always does a wonderful job of fitting the interactions of the literary characters with real ones into an accurate historical context. Darcy and Liz get plenty of face-to-face time along with lots of the aforementioned verbal foreplay, leading up to a couple of steamy scenes between the two of them.
My only criticism is the heavy reliance at times on conversation. In parts of the book, it feels slow because nothing much is actually happening, and Darcy doesn't enter the story at all until about one-quarter of the way in. It needs a bit more action.
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