Axiomatic
Quotes from the Book
I suspected he looked down on me as an American, and he seldom got my jokes. He’d be terrible in bed. I put my odds of sleeping with him before the mission had ended at 70 percent.
I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.
We are just vessels. The art is eternal.
My medical advice surely seemed just as random. Particularly since I was a female and, by definition, could not know anything.
Unfortunately, the only women who get to wander around London after dark are whores.
Muitas pessoas de meu mundo acham estranho, até trágico, que a autora de histórias de amor tão emocionalmente satisfatórias, aparentemente nunca tenha encontrado o amor; mas eu não. Por um lado, ela era um gênio: ardendo de desejo de criar obras de arte imortais, não uma casa confortável para marido e filhos. Por outro lado, ela escrevia sobre o mundo que conhecia e sobre o que sentia que atrairia os leitores. O enredo matrimonial é interessante especialmente pelo modo como ilumina o coração de seus personagens, pelo que eles aprendem sobre si mesmos a caminho do altar. Ela se preocupa com questões maiores: como distinguir pessoas boas de falsificações plausíveis; o que uma vida moral exige de nós; o problema de ser uma mulher inteligente em um mundo que não tinha lugar para ela.
Watch on YouTube
About Kathleen A. Flynn
About the book
Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: Two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.
London England, 1815: Two travelers—Rachel Katzman and Liam Finucane—arrive in a field, disheveled and weighed down with hidden money. They are not what they seem, but colleagues from a technologically advanced future, posing as a doctor and his spinster sister. While Rachel and Liam aren’t the first team of time travelers, their mission is the most audacious yet: meet, befriend, and steal from Jane Austen.
Carefully selected and rigorously trained by The Royal Institute for Special Topics in Physics, disaster-relief doctor Rachel and actor-turned-scholar Liam have little in common excerpt their extraordinary circumst
Book details
- First published
- 2017
- Author
- Kathleen A. Flynn
- Genre
- Historical
- Goodreads rating
- 3.67 (11k ratings)
Keep reading
Axiomatic
The Artificial Silk Girl
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Swan Thieves
Homesick for Another World
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
The Rachel Papers
Jude the Obscure
Super Sad True Love Story
The Family Upstairs
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Dept. of Speculation
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Grotesque
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
The Rachel Incident
Art and Lies
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories & Other Revenges
The Flight Attendant
Travels With My Aunt
A Perilous Undertaking
Dream Count
The English Patient
The Book of the Most Precious Substance
Flappers and Philosophers
The Hearing Trumpet
The Golden Notebook
Terminal Boredom: Stories
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
A Study in Scarlet Women
Silent in the Grave
The Muse
My Cousin Rachel
South of No North
Platform
The Syrian Virgin
The Deep Blue Good-By
An Experiment in Love
Conversion
Breasts and Eggs
Jailbird
Jane Steele
The Jane Austen Book Club
Beautiful Losers
A Widow for One Year
The Rules Do Not Apply
The Country Girls
Ghostwritten
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Her Body and Other Parties
Seven Blades in Black
Tropic of Cancer
NW
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Gaudy Night
A Certain Hunger
The Female Man
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

