Fitzwilliam Darcy's wealth is a topic of interest throughout Pride and Prejudice. It is originally…
Book Review: Pemberley Shades
There are lots of sequels to Pride and Prejudice and they are of widely varying quality; Pemberley Shades: Pride and Prejudice continues
The story starts a few years after the conclusion of Pride and Prejudice with the death of Pemberley’s rector after “a long life of little eventfulness.” Unfortunately for the Darcy family, finding a suitable replacement turns out to be very eventful and much more difficult than Fitzwilliam Darcy anticipated.
This story works for me because the author was wise enough to not try and tell Pride and Prejudice all over again, which allows the characters to keep the growth that they had achieved in Pride and Prejudice rather than having them regress to where they were when that novel began. Darcy and Elizabeth are no longer to seperate entities who are often working in opposition to each other, instead we see that they now work together and support each other in solving the difficulties that arise. And that is accomplished without changing their essential characters — Darcy is still an aristocratic master of the manor and Elizabeth remains playful and teasing. They have tempered each other’s excesses but not eliminated their personalities.
If you are going to read one of the published Pride and Prejudice sequels, I recommend Pemberley Shades be that one.
Sounds really good!
My major problem with sequels is exactly that they make E&D regress, and often make them much more stupid than they were anywhere in the original.
Exactly! I’ve read some where it seems like all either of them do is throw temper tantrums over nineteenth century non-issues that they should be able to deal with as mature adults.