![]() ![]() ![]() Some painstakingly re-create the language of their forebears others adopt a more wink-wink, hey-it’s-2016 tone, or strive for a narrative voice that splits the difference.Īll come to the exercise as fans, although complete obeisance is not required. Others may elevate a minor player to center stage, such as Alison Case in the new Nelly Dean: A Return to Wuthering Heights. Some, like Barron, use the writer herself as a time-period-appropriate character (this Miss Austen is a ladylike sleuth). Darcy (Sam Riley) gleefully dispatching the undead with swords - to the more sedate “Being a Jane Austen Mystery” series by Stephanie Barron. ![]() They range from Seth Grahame-Smith’s wild 2009 best seller, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - now a movie adaptation featuring Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) and Mr. Lots of novelists have been hitting the “puree” button lately, whipping up tasty mashups, pastiches and homages to great writers of the past, from Jane Austen to Edgar Allan Poe to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the Brontës. ![]()
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