Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane Never Wrote - Softcover

Lawler, Jennifer; Wigington, Patti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440511853 ISBN 13: 9781440511851

Publisher: Adams Media, 2011

Synopsis

Imagine Mansfield Park set on the Jersey Shore. Or Mr. Darcy heading up the Starship Enterprise. Or Emma Woodhouse traveling through time to indulge her matchmaking.

If you think that sounds like bad Austen, you couldn't be more right. It is a truth universally acknowledged that an author as popular as Jane Austen should be imitated, expanded upon, and parodied. Now, in the tradition of the Bad Hemingway and Bad Faulkner contests, comes a new collection of hilarious efforts to write the worst excerpt from the novel Jane Austen never wrote.

Bad Austen: Because the only thing better than good Austen is bad Austen!

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Archer is an editor at Adams Media and author of The Quotable Intellectual and I Watch, Therefore I Am. In his life he has been a college instructor, a convenience-store clerk, and a short-order cook, as well as a lifelong fan of Jane Austen. He lives in Wareham, MA.

Jennifer Lawler is a writer and editor and the author or coauthor of more than thirty books. Love of Jane Austen may have convinced her to earn a PhD in English Literature, but it was the love of laughter that made her beg to help create Bad Austen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1440511853
• ISBN 13: 9781440511851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Archer Peter