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  Pride and Prejudice

  by Jane Austen

  The proud and wealthy Mr. Darcy and spirited Elizabeth Bennet dislike each other at first sight. While Elizabeth's mother schemes for suitable husbands for her five daughters, his pride and her prejudice just might keep them apart.
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  Death Comes to Pemberley

  by P. D. James

  A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem. It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy’s magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has... (more)
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  Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride

  A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

  by Helen Halstead

  When Elizabeth Bennett marries the brooding, passionate Mr. Darcy, she is thrown into the exciting world of London society. She makes a powerful friend in the Marchioness of Englebury but the jealousy among her ladyship's circle threatens to destroy Elizabeth's happiness. Elizabeth is drawn into a powerful clique for whom intrigue is the stuff of life and rivalry the motive, and her success, it seems, can only... (more)
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  Darcy's Story

  by Janet Aylmer

  When Elizabeth Bennet first met Mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude—despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten thousand pounds a year. But what was Mr. Darcy thinking? Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice has long stood among the most beloved novels of all time. The story of Elizabeth Bennet's blossoming romance with "haughty, reserved, and fastidious"... (more)
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  Pride and Prejudice (A Norton Critical Edition)

  by Jane Austen, Donald Gray

  A perennial favorite in the Norton Critical Editions series, Pride and Prejudice is based on the 1813 first edition text, which has been thoroughly annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and by acclaimed biographers Claire Tomalin and David Nokes. Seventeen of Austen's letters—eight of them new to the Third... (more)
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  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

  The Classic Regency Romance - Now With Ultraviolent Mayhem!

  by Seth Grahame-Smith

  'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.' So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine... (more)
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  The Pemberley Variations

  Conquering Mr. Darcy

  by Abigail Reynolds

  In the Pride and Prejudice Variations series, Abigail Reynolds explores the roads not taken in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, imagining lively plot twists and ecstatically happy endings. Here the story picks up from a pivotal point in Pride and Prejudice —Mr. Darcy's infamously botched proposal of marriage. What if, instead of disappearing from her life after Elizabeth Bennet refuses his awkward marriage... (more)
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  Promises

  by Wendi Sotis

  Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy meet as children. Over the years, their feelings for each other grow, but what will happen when unfortunate circumstances and interfering family members seek to keep them apart? Wendi Sotis, the author of two novels and several short stories taking Jane Austen’s beloved characters from Pride and Prejudice on journeys in new directions, graduated from Adelphi University... (more)
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  Colonel Fitzwilliam's Correspondence (A Taste)

  by D W Wilkin

  Fitzwilliam Darcy's cousin, the Colonel is bound for war on the Peninsula. Is there love in his future while war is waged across Europe? Witnessing his cousin marry for love and not money, as he felt destined to do, Colonel Fitzwilliam refused to himself to be jealous. He did not expect his acquaintance with the Bennet Clan to change that. Catherine Bennet, often called Kitty, had not given a great deal of... (more)
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  Every Savage Can Reproduce: Pride and Prejudice-inspired Science Fiction

  by Enid Wilson

  In the futuristic society on Planet Earth, Elizabeth Bennet is accused of luring Fitzwilliam Darcy to an illegal establishment, which leads to their exile deep in the centre of a rebel planet. The subsequent galactic war exposes dark secrets regarding the autocratic Queen Immortal. Will Elizabeth and Darcy discover their love for one another and find their way back to Earth? Set in the 39th Century, this novel... (more)
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  Compulsively Mr. Darcy

  by Nina Benneton

  This modern Mr. Darcy yearns for a normal life but doubts any woman could handle his obsessive compulsive disorder--he's frantic to keep everyone he loves safe. Meanwhile, infectious disease specialist Dr. Elizabeth Bennet's intimacy issues ensure that she has terrible luck with men. When the two meet up in a Vietnamese hospital after Darcy's best friend Charles Bingley gets into a cyclo accident, Elizabeth thinks... (more)
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  Mr. Darcy Takes the Plunge

  by J. Marie Croft

  A pun-filled tale featuring Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice characters with some added or addled, missing or missish, modified or mortified, healthier, wealthier, or wiser. Impeccable comportment is mandatory in Regency England, a society governed by strict rules of conduct. The immaculate image of perfectionist Fitzwilliam Darcy is somewhat tarnished when he and his traveling companions arrive, hot... (more)
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  The Pemberley Variations

  What Would Mr. Darcy Do?

  by Abigail Reynolds

  This sexy installment in the Pride and Prejudice Variations series explores one of the roads not taken in Jane Austen's original. Before Darcy leaves the Lambton Inn after learning the scandalous news about Lydia and Wickham, he and Elizabeth declare their true feelings. Determined to give Darcy up rather than drag his name through the mud, Elizabeth will have to choose between what is right, and what she wants... (more)
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  Fire and Cross: Pride and Prejudice with a steamy mysterious twist

  by Enid Wilson

  The combination of a lethal blaze and a garnet cross have ensured that ever since he was a boy, Fitzwilliam Darcy's future is promised to an unknown lady. With danger looming from a suspected spy, and with murder close at hand, will Mr. Darcy cross paths with Elizabeth Bennet and win her affections? Mr. Darcy's journey to overcome his pride and find eternal love in Pride and Prejudice takes on a mysterious... (more)
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  Fitzwilliam Darcy An Honourable Man

  by Brenda Webb

  Fitzwilliam Darcy, An Honourable Man is a Pride and Prejudice variation. Not a simple retelling, it is an intriguing new story. Leaving England after his disastrous proposal was refused at Hunsford, Darcy spent two lonely years in Scotland and Ireland before returning home to face Elizabeth Bennet, certain that he could regard her as an indifferent acquaintance. Events that transpired in his absence have left... (more)
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  Searching for Pemberley

  by Mary Lydon Simonsen

  Set against Regency England, World Wars I and II, and postwar England, three love stories intertwine in surprising and fateful ways American Maggie Joyce, touring Derbyshire in 1947, visits an 18th century Georgian country house that she is told was the model for Jane Austen's Pemberley. More amazingly, the former residents of the mansion, William Lacey and Elizabeth Garrison, were the inspiration for the... (more)
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  Austenland: Book 1

  Austenland

  by Shannon Hale

  Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer... (more)
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  Pemberley Remembered

  by Mary Lydon Simonsen

  Maggie Joyce, a 22-year old American from a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, arrives in England in the summer of 1947. After weeks of touring the sights of London, Maggie visits Montclair, an 18th Century Georgian country house located in the Peak District of Derbyshire, because she has been told that the former residents of the mansion, William Lacey and Elizabeth Garrison, were the inspiration for the... (more)
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  Jane Austen in the 21st Century: Book 4

  Love, Lies and Lizzie (Jane Austen in the 21st Century)

  by Rosie Rushton

  What would happen if the traumas of teenage life and love from Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE were transferred to the twenty first century? When Mrs Bennet inherits enough money to move into the kind of village she has always dreamed of, her daughters find themselves swept up in a glamorous life of partying and country pursuits. But Lizzie and her sisters soon discover that, beneath the very smart surface,... (more)
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  Pride & Prejudice (Graphic Novel)

  by Jane Austen, Nancy Butler, Hugo Petrus

  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife... " Tailored from the adored Jane Austen classic, Marvel Comics is proud to present Pride & Prejudice! Two-time Rita Award-Winner Nancy Butler and fan-favorite Hugo Petras faithfully adapt the whimsical tale of Lizzy Bennet and her loveable-if-eccentric family, as they navigate through tricky... (more)