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L'existence ordonnée et protégée du domaine de la famille Darcy ne saurait être troublée. Mais, suite à un drame, Lydia, la soeur d'Elizabeth, la maîtresse des lieux, et son mari Wickham débarquent à Pimberley, endroit qui leur était interdit à cause de leurs frasques passées. Avec eux s'invitent la mort et la suspicion. Une suite "criminelle" d'Orgueil et préjugés de Jane Austen.… (plus d'informations)
I read the classic "Pride and Prejudice" just before reading this book. Both are extremely boring and I don't understand how anyone could enjoy a writing style in which superfluous details are being recollected over and over. This book was certainly not "Dazzling" and did not have "the pace of a thriller" (as written on the cover). P.D. James fans, run away! ( )
Really, gentle reader, there are limits. When mystery grande dame P. D. James felt the mantle of Jane Austen fall on her shoulders, why didn't she simply shrug it off? James places a template of Austen characters and Austen-like language over a traditional mystery plot. The mystery is set in 1803, six years after the wedding of Elizabeth and Darcy, with ample space given to catching us up on the recent doings of the Bennet family. On the mystery side, there's plenty of action, from the discovery of Captain Denny's body, through a trial, assorted deceptions and mix-ups, and love affairs. Unfortunately, though, if this is meant as an homage, it's a pretty weak cup of tea. James' many fans will be pleased to see any kind of new book from the 91-year-old author, but discriminating Austen devotees are unlikely to appreciate the move from social comedy to murder.
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To Joyce McLennan Friend and personal assistant who has typed my novels for thirty-five years With affection and gratitude
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It was generally agreed by the female residents of Meryton that Mr and Mrs Bennett of Longbourn had been fortunate in the disposal in marriage of four of their five daughters.
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Author's note: I owe an apology to the shade of Jane Austen for involving her beloved Elizabeth in the trauma of a murder investigation, especially as in the final chapter of Mansfield Park Miss Austen made her views quite plain: 'Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.' No doubt she would have replied to my apology by saying that, had she wished to dwell on such odious subjects, she would have written this story herself, and done it better.
Here we sit at the beginning of a new century, citizens of the most civilised country in Europe, surrounded by the splendour of its craftsmanship, its art and the books which enshrine its literature, while outside there is another world which wealth and education and privilege can keep from us, a world in which men are as violent and destructive as in the animal world. Perhaps even the most fortunate of us will not be able to ignore it and keep it at bay for ever.
Simon Cartwright’s management of the prosecution was now apparent and Darcy could appreciate its cleverness. The story would be told scene by scene, imposing both coherence and credibility on the narrative and producing in court as it unfolded something of the excited expectancy of a theatre. But what else, thought Darcy, but public entertainment was a trial for murder? The actors clothed for the parts assigned for them to play, the buzz of happy comment and anticipation before the character assigned to the next scene appeared, and then the moment of high drama when the chief actor entered the dock from which no escape was possible before facing the final scene: life or death. This was English law in practice, a law respected throughout Europe, and how else could such a decision be made, in all its terrible finality, with more justice? He had been subpoenaed to be present but, gazing round at the crowded courtroom, the bright colours and waving headdresses of the fashionable and the drabness of the poor, he felt ashamed to be one of them.
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Together they got up from the bench and stood watching while Georgiana and Alveston, their happy laughter rising above the constant music of the stream, their hands still linked, came running to them across the shining grass.
L'existence ordonnée et protégée du domaine de la famille Darcy ne saurait être troublée. Mais, suite à un drame, Lydia, la soeur d'Elizabeth, la maîtresse des lieux, et son mari Wickham débarquent à Pimberley, endroit qui leur était interdit à cause de leurs frasques passées. Avec eux s'invitent la mort et la suspicion. Une suite "criminelle" d'Orgueil et préjugés de Jane Austen.
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Rien ne semble devoir troubler l'existence ordonnée et protégée de Pemberley, le domaine ancestral de la famille Darcy, dans le Derbyshire, ni perturber le bonheur conjugal de la maitresse des lieux, Elizabeth Darcy. Elle est la mère de deux charmants bambins; sa soeur préférée, Jane, et son mari, Bingley, habitent à moins de trente kilomètres de là; et son père adulé, Mr Bennet, vient régulièrement en visite, attiré par l'imposante bibliothèque du château. Mais cette félicité se trouve soudain menacée lorsque, à la veille du bal d'automne, un drame contraint les Darcy à recevoir sous leur toit la jeune soeur d'Elizabeth et son mari, que leurs frasques passées ont rendu indésirables à Pemberley. Avec eux s'invitent la mort, la suspicion et la résurgence de rancunes anciennes.