Lost in Austen by Emma Campbell Webster

Lost in Austen

Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure

Emma Campbell Webster

Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 7, 2007

Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines—a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcome Name: Elizabeth Bennet.

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Who it’s for
Follow Elizabeth Bennet through a playful web of choices across Austen’s novels.
Themes
Love and marriage, Austen-inspired adventure, Choices and consequences
Pacing
Fast

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Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines—a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcome Name: Elizabeth Bennet. Mission: To marry both prudently and for love. How? It's entirely up to the reader. The journey begins in Pride and Prejudice but quickly takes off on a whimsical Austen adventure of the reader's own creation.

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A series of choices leads the reader into the plots and romances of Austen's other works. Choosing to walk home from Netherfield Hall means falling into Sense and Sensibility and the infatuating spell of Mr. Willoughby. Accepting an invitation to Bath leads to Northanger Abbey and the beguiling Henry Tilney. And just where will Emma's Mr. Knightley fit in to the quest for a worthy husband? It's all up to the reader. A labyrinth of love and lies, scandals and scoundrels, misfortunes and marriages, Lost in Austen will delight and challenge any Austen lover.

Austen, Your Way

Follow Elizabeth Bennet through a playful web of choices across Austen’s novels.

Come here for

  • A fresh route through familiar Austen romances
  • The fun of steering Elizabeth’s romantic fortunes

Expect

  • Choices that lead into other Austen storylines
  • A whimsical mix of love, lies, scandals, and marriages

Where it sits

Retellings & Pastiche85%
Regency Romance48%
Funny Fiction35%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • The Classics
  • Funny Fiction
  • Regency Romance
Authors
Emma Campbell Webster
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
August 7, 2007
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Love and marriage · Austen-inspired adventure · Choices and consequences
Reading lane
The Classics