Vera Nazarian, who has had some really hard times lately, largely due to the vile Bank of America corporation, has just released her latest book Mansfield Park and Mummies. “Our gentle yet indomitable heroine Fanny Price must hold steadfast not only against the seductive charms of Henry Crawford but also an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh!”
The author writes: “You have all heard of the best selling Jane Austen monster mash-up phenomenon Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its followup Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, right?
Well, I took Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park original text and expanded it with particular subtlety, keeping the true Austen voice and flavor, and added my own portions that closely paralleled the Austen stylistic mannerisms, wit, cleverness, and a great comic horror-fantasy storyline that (unlike the other mash-ups that are more of a ‘Frankenstein patchwork around the joints’ kind of job) fit very smoothly and seamlessly into the Austen story. In addition, I massaged the original Austen prose, not leaving a paragraph unturned, sentence to sentence, clause to clause, to invisibly update and subtly make it more palatable to the modern reader.
In short, I wrote my own more ‘classy’ monster mash-up, and I gave it MY ALL.
I worked my ass off. I HAVE NEVER LAUGHED SO DAMN HARD AND LONG as I had writing this book. There is humor and romantic tension and wacky monsters of all sorts, and true love. There is the Brighton Duck…
I even illustrated it, and basically did everything short of chewing up the pulp to make the paper it was printed on.”
Check it out.
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