Author: Amanda Bloom & Jane Austen
In all the retreaded Austen novels one thing must be universally acknowledged: the greater part of the good writing belongs to Jane Austen. All the secondary author can hope for is to avoid damging it.
In some ways this version is not wild enough. In other ways, it adds precious little to the existing text. It was both distracting and helpful to have the additions highlighted in bold, so we could see what had been done.
In some ways the additions cheapen it and take it to a 'Harlequin' romance level - extra emotion where it was not required, that blunts the beauty of the original.
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