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The Jane Austen Project

by Kathleen A. Flynn · 2017

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… more

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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.
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I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.
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We are just vessels. The art is eternal.
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My medical advice surely seemed just as random. Particularly since I was a female and, by definition, could not know anything.
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Unfortunately, the only women who get to wander around London after dark are whores.
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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.
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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and beloved authors: Two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel.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

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First published
2017
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3.67 (11k ratings)

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