|
The
Strange Marriage |
| Introduction |
I am currently working on my second full-length sequel to Pride and Prejudice, An
Unlikely Missionary. While laboring on this project, I have felt compelled to
remove a number of subplots I felt detracted from the novel's main focus and that, while a
great deal of fun, were perhaps too frivolous for the novel in question. It was a
painful amputation, but a necessary one, and yet these severed limbs seemed to have taken
on a life very much their own. I have regenerated them, therefore, into stand-alone
short stories, which I present to the reader in this collection. The title story is
something of a novelette, and it tells of Anne de Bourgh's strange fate, as well as her
cousin's attempts to rescue her from it. Will Mr. Darcy succeed? The next story,
"A Battle of Wits," consists of an exchange of letters between Mr. and Mrs.
Darcy, and "Mr. Darcy's Homecoming" relates the gentleman's return to Pemberley
and his insistence that he "claim his prize" for winning the battle. |
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