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Told from the perspective of Darcy, the first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a disastrous Netherfield Park ball and offers insight into his complicated past.
Sequels:
Duty and Desire
These Three Remain

Eliza, the illegitimate daughter of Colonel Brandon’s sister, discovers her parentage and claims her birthright, becoming something of an 18th Century feminist.
Also:
Emma Watson : Jane Austen’s unfinished novel completed
Mansfield Park revisited
The youngest Miss Ward

Picking up twenty years after Pride and Prejudice left off, this “sequel” finds Elizabeth and Darcy on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople, giving readers an opportunity to get to know their five daughters, who have left the sheltered surroundings of Pemberley for a few months in London.
Sequels:
The Exploits and Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy
The True Darcy Spirit
The Second Mrs. Darcy
The Darcy Connection

After an unhappy romance, Mr. Darcy’s niece Phoebe retreats to Pemberley where, amid preparations for a summer ball, she and Louisa Bingley encounter several handsome strangers intent on winning their hearts.

A dramatic new interpretation of Pride and Prejudice chronicles the unfolding romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy from his perspective, capturing the underlying feelings, thoughts, ideas, and motivations of the reserved hero.

Visiting the estate of her friend Isobel, the newly married Countess of Scargrave, Jane Austen is drawn into a mystery when Isobel’s husband dies suspiciously and the bereaved young bride is implicated in the murder.
First in a nine-book series.

Just after their wedding, the newlywed hero and heroine of Pride and Prejudice become involved in a bizarre mystery involving wedding guest Caroline Bingley, who has become engaged to wed a wealthy, charismatic American.
Sequels:
Suspense and Sensibility
North by Northanger
The Matters at Mansfield

Emma wants Knightley to stop treating her like a child. Knightley meanwhile wants his young bride to love him as a husband, not as the man she’s always looked up to. With tragedy in the offing, and events unfolding, the couple must find their way to each other, and to perfect happiness.

An interactive novel in which the reader determines the course of action for the favorite characters from some of Jane Austen’s most beloved works.

A witty send-up of Pride and Prejudice set in a Florida retirement village follows a circle of retirees on a hilarious voyage of love and manners.
Also: Jane Austen in Scarsdale

A continuation of the story of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice begins after the wedding of Elizabeth and Darcy and follows their relationship and that of Jane and Bingley, as they cope with changes, joys, and tragedies.
First in a five-book series.

This epistolary novel picks up where Pride and Prejudice left off. Drafting 25 letters from Elizabeth Darcy to her sister Jane, Dawkins seeks to describe Elizabeth’s first months as mistress of Pemberley.

During an audition for a play about Jane Austen, New York actress C. J. Welles is transported back in time to Bath, England, at the turn of the nineteenth century, where she finds herself torn between two different eras.

Robert Darcy is as charming as Fitzwilliam Darcy is proud, and he is stunned to find a beautiful young woman weeping at his cousin’s wedding. Caroline Bingley is humiliated to discover this American stranger has witnessed her emotional display. Can love conquer all?

Observing the modern-day romances that mark the filming of the BBC’s latest production, impoverished novelist Llew Bevan witnesses the unlikely pairing of the movie’s leading lady and his bashful neighbor as well as the interplay between its haphazard starring actor and imperious director.

As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love.

This retelling allows readers to see the events of Jane Austen’s famous novel from Mr. Darcy’s point of view. Scenes only hinted at in the original are here recorded in detail and brought to life.
Also:
Mr. Knightley’s Diary
Captain Wentworth’s Diary
Colonel Brandon’s Diary

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre takes up the beloved characters and plot threads of Jane Austen’s novel and weaves them into a supernaturally-wrought adventure.

Because her obsession with Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women.

The discovery of an old chest in the attic of the Austen family home reveals secrets about Jane’s private romantic life and the inspiration of her beloved works.

His duty to his family and his estate demand that Fitzwilliam Darcy choose a woman of refined tastes. Yet, what his mind tells him to do and what his heart knows to be true are two different things.
Also: Darcy’s Temptation

Invited to join her Aunt Winnie for a How to Host a Murder Party on New Year’s Eve at Winnie’s new Cape Cod B and B, Elizabeth Parker must unearth old secrets and new motives in order to clear her beloved aunt of suspicion when the local wealthy miser ends up the unscripted victim.

Through the honeymoon the Fitzwilliams’ passion and love for each other grows. To Lizzy’s delight, Darcy’s sister, Georgiana, returns home just as Christmas preparations are underway, but all is not calm—the marquis of Orman, whom Elizabeth first encounters at the Twelfth Night Ball, has sinister intentions.
First in a two-book series.

Based on historical records, a novel presented as a journal written by Jane Austen follows the author’s life from her first love affair at age twenty until she is a respected author in her late thirties.

Sweet, kindhearted Annie Markham is forced to turn to tough Jake Mead, the one-time love of her life who had left her seven years earlier, to help her save her family’s ailing company, in a story of love and revenge based on Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

Successful magazine journalist Jasmine Field finds her life falling apart—her best friend leaves, her family unravels, and her column hits the skids—just when she lands the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet in a charity performance of Pride and Prejudice opposite arrogant Hollywood heartthrop Harry Noble.

The road to matrimony is fraught with difficulties and even when Lydia Bennet is convinced that she has met the man of her dreams, complications arise. When Lydia is reunited with the Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys for a grand ball at Netherfield Park, the shocking truth about her husband may just cause the greatest scandal of all.

Three years after the events of Sense and sensibility, Willoughby’s return throws Marianne into a tizzy of painful memories and feelings of uncertainty. With Brandon away and Willoughby determined to win her back, will she find the strength to save her marriage—or will the temptation of a previous love be too powerful to resist?

After discovering a letter to Jane Austen from Fitzwilliam Darcy — a supposedly fictional character — in the back of her antique vanity’s mirror, Eliza Knight searches for the only man who knows the truth behind this mystery.

Professor Emma Grant travels to England to examine what are reputedly lost letters of Jane Austen and, after renewing her acquaintance with old friend, Adam Clark, must sort out her feelings about love and identity.

A tale inspired by the relationship between Jane Austen and her sister follows the romantic disappointments suffered by both young women, describes their frustrating financial dependence on their relatives, and depicts the intellectual sparring that marked their devoted friendship.

Emily has a string of disastrous dates and decides she has had it with love, but after fleeing to England on a tour of Jane Austen’s country she runs into Mr. Darcy, the hero from Pride and Prejudice.

What if instead of disappearing from Elizabeth Bennet’s life after she refused his offer of marriage, Mr. Darcy had stayed and tried to change her mind?

Marine biologist Cassie Boulton likes her coffee with cream and her literature with happy endings. Her favorite book is Pride and Prejudice, but Cassie has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab.

Transported through time into Regency England, heartbroken Austen fan Courtney Stone is forced to live the discouragingly difficult life of a nineteenth-century woman and finds herself experiencing memories that are not her own.

Jane Mansfield, a gentleman’s daughter from Regency England, inexplicably awakens in an overly wired and morally confused L.A. with memories that are not her own and a friend named Wes—who is as attractive and confusing to Jane as the man who broke her heart back home.

An interpretation of Austen’s novella “Lady Susan” finds a widow losing her family home through entail to her deceased husband’s brother and dealing with her daughter’s romantic prospects, which are complicated by a need for financial security.

Desperate to escape her life in a small Pennsylvania mining town, Maggie Joyce accepts a job in post-World War II London, hoping to find adventure. Maggie embarks on a journey through the letters of Montclair estate’s former owners, searching for signs of Darcy and Elizabeth. But when the search introduces her to both a dashing American pilot and a handsome descendant of the ‘Darcy’ line, Maggie must decide how her own love story will end.

Mr. Darcy’s intimate diary reveals his entanglements with women, his dangerous friendship with Lord Byron, his daily life in Georgian London, his mercurial mood swings calmed only by fisticuffs at Jackson’s—and, most importantly, his vain struggle to conquer his longing for Elizabeth Bennet.

A modern tale loosely based on Pride and Prejudice finds lawyer Eddi Boswick landing a part in a local theater production opposite an unlikely but attractive leading man who hides a difficult secret.
First in a six-book series.

A sequel to “Pride and Prejudice” takes up the story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy a year after their wedding, when gossip and troublesome relations again cause them discomfort.

Jane Austen’s letters and diaries from the period preceding her first novel have never been found. It’s believed that they were destroyed by her sister Cassandra, but why? Some claim it was to hide a family scandal or a failed romance. The Lost Years of Jane Austen includes these possible intrigues as it weaves an engaging tale of Jane’s own trials and tribulations.