Jane Austen Giveaway

Austen Book Giveaway

This month, in collaboration with Sourcebooks Inc., Romance Reader at Heart is giving away a fantastic collection of works in celebration of one of our most beloved writers, Jane Austen. One lucky winner will win this remarkable set of books to add to their keeper shelves—true must have's for any aficionado of Austen's works. Included are:

LETTERS FROM PEMBERLY: The First Year by Jane Dawkins: In this continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, one of the best-loved novels in the English language, Elizabeth Bennet, now Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy and mistress of Pemberley, finds herself in a very different league of wealth and privilege. Writing to her sister, Jane, she confides her uncertainty and anxieties, and describes the everyday of her new life. Her first year at Pemberley is sometimes bewildering, but Lizzy's spirited sense of humour and satirical eye never desert her.

MORE LETTERS FROM PEMBERLY by Jane Dawkins: To the delight of the many readers who loved Letters from Pemberley, Jane Dawkinss popular continuation of Pride and Prejudice, More Letters from Pemberley continues the story of Elizabeth (Bennet) Darcys married life, picking up in 1814 and following this most popular of Jane Austen characters for another six years to the twilight of the Regency period in 1819. Writing to her beloved sister Jane, the irrepressible Lizzie describes life as mistress of Pemberley and her relationship with the dashing Fizwilliam Darcy. Highlights include a Darcy family Christmas, the inevitable conflicts that might arise even in such an illustrious family and the happiness of the birth of an heir.

THE DARCYS GIVE A BALL by Elizabeth Newark: While Jane and Lizzie plan a lavish ball at Pemberley, the Darcys' second son falls in love with the Collins' daughter, first-born Juliet Darcy is almost lured into an elopement, and Georgiana's timid daughter Lucy is the new target of Miss Caroline Bingley's meddling. The Darcys Give a Ball is a charming and very amusing imagining of the next generation of Jane Austen's beloved characters from Pride and Prejudice and other novels, where all the young people come together for a surprising and altogether satisfying ending. Sons and daughters share the physical and personality traits of their parents, but of course have minds of their own, and as Lizzie says to Jane: "The romantic attachments of one's children are a constant distraction."

As well as these two companion volumes to Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, both by Rebecca Ann Collins:

THE PEMBERLY CHRONICLES: Book 1: The weddings are over. The guests (including millions of readers and viewers) wish the two happy couples health and happiness. As the music swells and the credits roll, only two things are certain: Elizabeth and Darcy are to be the happiest couple in the world, while Jane and Bingley will want for nothing! Rebecca Ann Collins follows them in imagination, observing and chronicling their passage through the landscape of nineteenth century England, noting how they cope with change, triumph, and tragedy in their lives.

THE WOMEN OF PEMBERLY: Book 2: The Women of Pemberley follows the lives of five women, some from the beloved works of Jane Austen, some new from the authors imagination, into a new era of post industrial revolution England, at the start of the Victorian Age. Vast changes are in motion, as they were throughout this dynamic century. The women, like many of Jane Austens heroines, are strong, intelligent individuals, and the depth and variety of the original characters develop into a series of episodes linked together by their relationship to each other and to Pemberley, which is the heart of their community.

To enter, click this email address bookgiveaway@romancereaderatheart.com and send us your name, address and email no later than midnight, E.S.T., May 25, 2008.

*IMPORTANT: Be sure that the subject line of your entry email reads: Austen Book Giveaway.

**Please note! You must include your address in your email or your entry will be considered invalid. Only ONE entry per person! The winner will be announced on Monday, May 26, 2008.

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