Jane Slayre

Author : Charlotte Bronte,Sherri Browning Erwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857200044

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Jane Slayre by Charlotte Bronte,Sherri Browning Erwin Pdf

'Reader, I buried him.' So begins Sherri Browning Erwin's affectionate, funny and brilliantly clever monster mash-up of everyone's favourite literary classic. Mrs Reed and her children are vampires, Lowood is run by a voodoo headmaster who is turning his pupils into the walking dead, Mr Rochester's first wife is a werewolf, and Jane must learn to embrace her destiny as a slayer of evil before she can win her heart's desire. What's not to love? Jane Slayreis the one classic which can give Pride and Prejudice and Zombiesa run for its money, and Sherri Browning Erwin's masterful take on a timeless tale will delight monster fans and lovers of Charlotte Bronte alike.

Author : Charlotte Bronte,Sherri Browning Erwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439191298

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Jane Slayre by Charlotte Bronte,Sherri Browning Erwin Pdf

“ READER, I BURIED HIM . ” A timeless tale of love, devotion . . . and the undead. Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he’s hiding a violent werewolf in the attic—in the form of his first wife. Can a menagerie of bloodthirsty, flesh-eating, savage creatures-of-the-night keep a swashbuckling nineteenth-century lady from the gentleman she intends to marry? Vampyres, zombies, and werewolves transform Charlotte Brontë’s unforgettable masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure that will delight and terrify. Featuring a Gallery Books Readers Guide

Author : Megen de Bruin-Molé
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350103061

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Gothic Remixed by Megen de Bruin-Molé Pdf

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid creations are the 'monsters' of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir's Flux Machine GIFs. Megen de Bruin-Molé uses these monstrous and liminal works to show how the thrill of transgression has been contained within safe and familiar formats, resulting in the mashups that dominate Western popular culture.

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045046245

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

Author : Margot Livesey
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443406154

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Flight Of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey Pdf

When her widower father drowns at sea, ten-year-old Gemma Hardy, an only child, is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland, to live with her uncle’s family. But the death of her doting guardian soon after leaves Gemma under the resentful eye of her aunt. When she receives a scholarship to a private school, Gemma believes she’s found the perfect solution, and she eagerly sets out again to a new home. But at Claypoole, she finds herself treated as an unpaid servant. To Gemma’s delight, the school finally goes bankrupt in 1959 and she takes a job as an au pair on the Orkney Islands. Remote Blackbird Hall belongs to Mr. Sinclair, a rich, single London businessman; his eight-year-old niece is Gemma’s charge. An unlikely pair, Gemma and Sinclair are nonetheless drawn to each another, but their courtship is cut short by Gemma’s discovery of a secret that has shadowed her employer’s life. Set in Iceland and Scotland in the 1950s and ’60s, The Flight of Gemma Hardy is a captivating homage to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre—a sweeping saga that resurrects the timeless themes of the original but is destined to become a classic all its own.

Author : Tina Connolly
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429993043

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Ironskin by Tina Connolly Pdf

Ironskin is Tina Connolly's enchanting historical fantasy, a loose reimagining of Jane Eyre set in an alternate version of England in the early 1900s, in the aftermath of a war between humans and the fey. Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a "delicate situation"—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help. Teaching the unruly Dorie to suppress her curse is hard enough; she certainly didn't expect to fall for the girl's father, the enigmatic artist Edward Rochart. But her blossoming crush is stifled by her scars and by his parade of women. Ugly women, who enter his closed studio...and come out as beautiful as the fey. Jane knows Rochart cannot love her, just as she knows that she must wear iron for the rest of her life. But what if neither of these things are true? Step by step Jane unlocks the secrets of a new life—and discovers just how far she will go to become whole again. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Sherri Browning Erwin,Charles Dickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451617252

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Grave Expectations by Sherri Browning Erwin,Charles Dickens Pdf

Heaven knows, we need never be ashamed of our wolfish cravings. . . . Bristly, sensitive, and meat-hungry Pip is a robust young whelp, an orphan born under a full moon. Between hunting escaped convicts alongside zombified soldiers, trying not to become one of the hunted himself, and hiding his hairy hands from the supernaturally beautiful and haughty Estella, whose devilish moods keep him chomping at the bit, Pip is sure he will die penniless or a convict like the rest of his commonly uncommon kind. But then a mysterious benefactor sends him to London for the finest werewolf education money can buy. In the company of other furry young gentlemen, Pip tempers his violent transformations and devours the secrets of his dark world. When he discovers that his beloved Estella is a slayer of supernatural creatures, trained by the corpse-like vampire Miss Havisham, Pip’s desire for her grows stronger than his midnight hunger for rare fresh beef. But can he risk his hide for a truth that will make Estella his forever—or will she drive one last silver stake through his heart?

Author : Sherri Browning Erwin
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420140354

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To Hell With Love by Sherri Browning Erwin Pdf

"You like to sin, Kate?" When Boston interior designer Kate Markham meets real estate mogul Owen Glendower at a dinner party, sparks fly. Not only is Owen GQ-cover, drop-dead sexy and filthy rich, he has a maddeningly seductive way of knowing intimate details about her. Details that send heat rushing to her cheeks not to mention certain other parts of her body. Swept deliciously off her feet, Kate lets herself fall into a breathtakingly sensual journey she hopes will never end, even when Owen reveals his little secret: he happens to be Hades, ruler of the underworld and the devil himself! Caught in the fiery-sweet grip of a desire so consuming, Kate must choose between her business, her family, her life on Earth, and spending eternity in Hell with Owen. Then, out of the blue, family tragedy strikes, shaking her out of a rapturous trance to face the decision of a lifetime. Will she spend eternity with this devil of her dreams or follow her conscience back to earthly reality? Sherri Browning Erwin is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and a member of Romance Writers of America (RWA). She lives with her family in Needham, Massachusetts. "Wickedly entertaining! Sinfully sexy! Sherri Erwin's razor-sharp wit will make you laugh out loud." --Virginia Henley, author of Notorious and Infamous

Author : Eve Sinclair
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Erotic stories
ISBN : 1447292545

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Jane Eyre Laid Bare by Eve Sinclair Pdf

When an eager and curious Jane Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall her sexual desires are instantly awakened. Who is the enigmatic Rochester whom she instantly feels attracted to, what are the strange and yet captivating noises coming from the attic, and why does the very air she breathes feel heavy with passion? Only one thing Is certain. Jane Eyre may have arrived at Thornfield an unfulfilled and tentative woman, but she will leave a very different person...

Author : Sherri Browning Erwin,Charles Dickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451617245

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Grave Expectations by Sherri Browning Erwin,Charles Dickens Pdf

From the author of "Jayne Slayer" comes a clever retelling of Dickens's "Great Expectations," featuring Pip as a werewolf and Estella as a vampire slayer.

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441111166

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Everybody's Jane by Juliette Wells Pdf

The first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge from both published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into the founding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austen collection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austen portraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; and hybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicit Christianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about the importance of literature and reading today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004336612

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Neo-Victorian Humour by Anonim Pdf

Highlighting neo-Victorian humour’s crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture, this volume explores the major aesthetic, ideological and ethical issues raised by refracting the past through a comic lens, especially through self-conscious irony, parody, and black humour.

Author : Steve Hockensmith
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594744822

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith Pdf

Complete with romance, action, comedy, and an army of shambling corpses, this prequel to the hit mash-up novel will have Jane Austen rolling in her grave—or crawling out of it! Four years before the events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the Bennet sisters are enjoying a peaceful life in the English countryside, reading, gardening, and daydreaming about future husbands—until a funeral at the local parish goes strangely and horribly awry. Suddenly, corpses are springing from the soft earth—and only one family can stop them. As the bodies pile up, Elizabeth Bennet grows from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. Along the way, two men vie for her affections: Master Hawksworth is the powerful warrior who trains her to kill, while thoughtful Dr. Keckilpenny seeks to conquer the walking dead using science instead of strength. Will either man win the prize of Elizabeth’s heart? Or will their hearts be feasted upon by hordes of marauding zombies?

Author : Dana E. Lawrence,Amy L. Montz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501361791

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Adaptation in Young Adult Novels by Dana E. Lawrence,Amy L. Montz Pdf

Adaptation in Young Adult Novels argues that adapting classic and canonical literature and historical places engages young adult readers with their cultural past and encourages them to see how that past can be rewritten. The textual afterlives of classic texts raise questions for new readers: What can be changed? What benefits from change? How can you, too, be agents of change? The contributors to this volume draw on a wide range of contemporary novels – from Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and Megan Shepherd's Madman's Daughter trilogy to Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones – adapted from mythology, fairy tales, historical places, and the literary classics of Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Unpacking the new perspectives and critiques of gender, sexuality, and the cultural values of adolescents inherent to each adaptation, the essays in this volume make the case that literary adaptations are just as valuable as original works and demonstrate how the texts studied empower young readers to become more culturally, historically, and socially aware through the lens of literary diversity.

Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031321603

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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism by Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier Pdf

This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’ life stories, graphic novels, and contemporary fiction set in the nineteenth century. Contextualized by Sarah E Maier and Brenda Ayres in a comprehensive introduction, the collection describes current trends in neo-Victorian scholarship of novels, film, theatre, crime, empire/postcolonialism, Gothic, materiality, religion and science, amongst others. A variety of scholars from around the world contribute to this volume by applying an assortment of theoretical approaches and interdisciplinary focus in their critique of a wide range of narratives—from early neo-Victorian texts such as A. S. Byatt’s Possession (1963) and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to recent steampunk, from musical theatre to slumming, and from The Alienist to queerness—in their investigation of how this fiction reconstructs the past, informed by and reinforming the present.