The Third Sister
A Continuation of Jane Austen's
Sense and Sensibility

by Julia Barrett (signed)
pseudonym of Julia Braun Kessler

Donald J. Fine First Edition

Description: This item is for one copy (of two available for sale) of a hardback book published by Donald J. Fine / Penguin in 1996. The copyright pages state 'Published in 1996 by Donald I Fine Books' and the printing status bars are complete, making them first printings. Copy one signed by the author on the title page without inscription or personalization. Copy two inscribed 'To Ron' by the author on the title page. The previous Jane Austen sequel (Presumption) published as by Julia Barrett was a collaboration between Julia Braun Kessler and Gabrielle Donnelly. This sequel another Jane Austen work was written only by Julia Braun Kessler.

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From the Front Flap: In Sense and Sensibility Jame Austen, that so long mistaken avatar of Victorian propriety while actually its wittiest and subtlest critic, wrote of Margaret Dashwood, the third sister: "Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life."

At the same time that she is so faithfully, with love and respect, evokes Jane Austen's style and characters and ambience, Julia Barrett bids fair to show Margaret's creator happily wrong in her estimation of Margaret's at first vulnerable, then shrewd and winning potential, the exercise of which makes for the substance of this remarkable novel on its own.

But of course, Jane Austen couldn't know of Margaret's metamorphosis. Or perhaps she did, and meant one day to say so herself. Whatever, The Third Sister is an imaginative, creative continuation of Sense and Sensibility, featuring a Margaret Dashwood, the third sister, once so underestimated, who turns out to fool even her creator.

Condition: Bindings - near fine, top and bottom of spines slightly bumped, top page edges very slightly soiled, otherwise like new. Dust jackets - near fine, slight edgewear and wrinkling, not price clipped, in dust jacket protectors.