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Kimbelle Pease

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WARNING: In deference to a truth universally acknowledged that men do not behave the same when no women are present as they do in mixed company, this vagary does have occasional uses of profanity. The men in my life would consider it amusing but naïve to afford the same semantics of conversation for wholly different circumstances such as these, or they would should one of them choose to read it.
This vagary proposes an alternate telling of the original Pride and Prejudice and considers what may have happened should the characters have been afforded a slightly altered set of circumstances. What if Mr. Darcy had accepted quite early that he was falling in love with Elizabeth? What if Elizabeth was the least stubborn of her sisters? What if Mrs. Bennet was allowed to settle in mind and spirit? What if Mr. Bennet exerted himself on behalf of his daughters? What if Mr. Collins was in some way welcomed as the next owner of the estate? Those are only some of the twists within this tale, and while not canon, I hope I gave your favorite character a moment unto themselves that will make you smile.
CAUTION: I want to specifically state that this vagary is not for all Pride and Prejudice genre readers. If one reads to find fault in what is not canon, I’ve been most forthcoming about the fact that it is a vagary, so you should already be on your guard and perhaps pass it by. For those of you who are strict authoress-guidelines conscious, I will argue that in all time periods people spoke with the use of contractions. To that end, I was true to life rather than follow her pointed non-use of them. Outside conversation, however, you will not find them, and I hope that soothes any feathers which may be ruffled at such a bold defiance.
CAUTION: My editor also requested that I issue a point of clarification on her behalf. I confess that as an author em-dashes drive me nanabas, so in conflict with her excellent advice, I did not include many of them where she said they should be. Despise me for it if you must, but no novel, story, prose, or verse ever hinged on one’s use. The lacking or use of a comma, however, has cost millions. I promise that for those, I let her fully guide me.
NOTE: My personal pleasure in writing this book was the intent to make any who read it find themselves staying up at night; not because ODCs are near death, have been forced to do that which they despise, or are off chasing Lydia again, but because I believe I am not the only one of us who dearly loves to laugh.
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- By shakira on 01-15-25
By: Victoria Lynn
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Lady Fetton's Longbourn Legacy
- A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Victoria Lynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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In this clean reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Thomas Bennet has a much older sister, Marianne, who enters into an arranged marriage when she is fifteen and Thomas is five. The siblings have little contact and no real interest in each other. Marianne is widowed and remarries and in the process becomes Lady Fetton, a Duchess and a very wealthy woman. Years pass and after Marianne is widowed a second time she returns to Longbourn and becomes involved in the lives of the Bennets only weeks before the Bingleys and Darcy arrive at Netherfield. Mr. Darcy and Miss Bingley, ...
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It should've been listed as a vagary, not a variation
- By Shay on 08-29-24
By: Victoria Lynn
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Love by Turns: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary Novella
- By: Kimbelle Pease
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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This vagary proposes an alternate perspective for Mr. William Collins, the parson of Hunsford Parsonage in Kent, who has been charged with two missions by his patroness, the estimable Mistress of Rosings Park. He arrives on the doorstep of Longbourn with the principle wish to heal a long-standing breach in the family. While endeavoring to right past wrongs, he must also find a suitable companion from amongst his cousins of whom his patroness might approve. As the heir to Longbourn, Mr. Collins is very aware that this these tasks will not be easily accomplished. Join Mr. Collins as his ...
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I love JAFF but this one kept me in a constant state of annoyance
- By Anonymous on 01-02-25
By: Kimbelle Pease
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The Formation of Just Such a Plan: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary
- By: Kimbelle Pease
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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One warning, two cautions, and two notes: WARNING: Portions of this book focus on some of George Wickham’s worst crimes against young ladies. While the revenge taken is not fully or graphically detailed, it is extreme. “He had certainly formed such a plan, and without meaning that it should effect his endeavour to separate him from Miss Bennet, it is probable that it might add something to his lively concern for the welfare of his friend.” Pride & Prejudice, chapter 45 This vagary proposes an alternate path for the characters of Pride and Prejudice. Some character aspects are ...
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Rather boring
- By Aleinad on 06-21-24
By: Kimbelle Pease
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Misunderstandings
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: AnnaMarie Wallace
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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An unbelievable thing has just happened at Meryton’s Assembly Ball. A feather worked its way loose from Miss Bingley’s turban, swooping unerringly for Mr. Darcy’s unprotected eye! Instinctively, the gentleman in question raised his hand and stepped backward to avoid the object, tripping Miss Elizabeth Bennet and then falling upon her prone form. Scandalous! A marriage must occur, of course. But he does not want to marry an unknown country miss and she most certainly does not want to marry the proud, dour Mr. Darcy. Can they find their way to one another despite this inauspicious ...
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Best P&P variation
- By Rosa Okonski on 01-07-25
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Assumed Virtue
- A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Victoria Lynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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What if Mrs. Bennet is a well-educated tradesman’s daughter, Mr. Collins takes his parish duties seriously and Mr. Bennet overcomes his laziness? A clean reimagining of P&P, focusing on the gentlemen of our story.
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Really awful
- By Teresa Kendall on 04-17-24
By: Victoria Lynn
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Leasing Longbourn
- A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Victoria Lynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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What if there were no entail? When Mr. Bennet dies, the Bennet ladies are given a new home at their Uncle Gardiner’s estate, Netherfield Park. When Mr. Bingley looks to lease an estate close to London, Longbourn seems the perfect solution. And he brings with him his best friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, along with Miss Bingley, Mr. and Mrs. Hurst, retired Col. Fitzwilliam, and the longtime mentor of Darcy and Fitzwilliam, Mr. Wickham. Lady Anne Darcy, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and other family members plot against our favorite couple. Will they succeed in their efforts to compromise Miss Darcy?
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AI reading or robotic, reading or whatever this is, makes it awful
- By shakira on 01-15-25
By: Victoria Lynn
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Lady Fetton's Longbourn Legacy
- A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Victoria Lynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In this clean reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Thomas Bennet has a much older sister, Marianne, who enters into an arranged marriage when she is fifteen and Thomas is five. The siblings have little contact and no real interest in each other. Marianne is widowed and remarries and in the process becomes Lady Fetton, a Duchess and a very wealthy woman. Years pass and after Marianne is widowed a second time she returns to Longbourn and becomes involved in the lives of the Bennets only weeks before the Bingleys and Darcy arrive at Netherfield. Mr. Darcy and Miss Bingley, ...
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It should've been listed as a vagary, not a variation
- By Shay on 08-29-24
By: Victoria Lynn
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Love by Turns: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary Novella
- By: Kimbelle Pease
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This vagary proposes an alternate perspective for Mr. William Collins, the parson of Hunsford Parsonage in Kent, who has been charged with two missions by his patroness, the estimable Mistress of Rosings Park. He arrives on the doorstep of Longbourn with the principle wish to heal a long-standing breach in the family. While endeavoring to right past wrongs, he must also find a suitable companion from amongst his cousins of whom his patroness might approve. As the heir to Longbourn, Mr. Collins is very aware that this these tasks will not be easily accomplished. Join Mr. Collins as his ...
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I love JAFF but this one kept me in a constant state of annoyance
- By Anonymous on 01-02-25
By: Kimbelle Pease
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Sisters of the Heart
- A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Victoria Lynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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While still in mourning for his beloved wife Francis, Thomas Bennet is compromised. Forced to marry a woman he cannot esteem, Mr. Bennet worries over the safety and the upbringing of his cherished daughters from his first marriage. Determined that his second wife will not be allowed to treat his girls poorly, Mr. Bennet arrives at the Gardiner home in London with Jane, Elizabeth and newborn Mary. Their lives take a very different path from canon in this clean, low angst retelling of Pride and Prejudice.
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Good story
- By Fabulous Mrs B on 12-11-24
By: Victoria Lynn
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Fortunate Diversions
- A Pride & Prejudice Variation
- By: Campbell Davies
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy is distressed. Not only is his friend Bingley engaged to a woman who may not return his affection, but her sister is all that he should not desire. Darcy is finished fighting against his feelings, however, and resolves to marry Elizabeth Bennet. Except that she doesn't want him. Elizabeth is puzzled by the gentleman from the Lake District. He runs hot one minute and cold the next. When she finds herself alone with him, his character is revealed. But a proposal by her cousin forces her out of Hertfordshire and into London, and Elizabeth's youngest sister is propelled ...
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the narrator
- By Angela Campbell on 03-20-25
By: Campbell Davies
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From the Hedgerows to Windsor
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Eselle Teays
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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“This Work Is, By His Royal Highness’s Permission, Most Respectfully Dedicated, By His Royal Highness’s Dutiful And Obedient Humble Servant, The Author.” Underneath the dedication was a line written by the Royal Librarian during the Regency, Mr. Stanier Clarke: ‘A Scribbler: The Honorable Miss Elizabeth Bennet.’ What is the story behind this novel, which was distinguished enough that the Prince Regent, later George IV, requested a dedication to himself? Was the author from the peerage, or did she earn the title? —Prologue, From the Hedgerows to Windsor After Hunsford, ...
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Wonderful P&P Variation
- By Sharon on 02-22-25
By: Eselle Teays
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Such Novel Notions
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Eselle Teays
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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On seeing Mr. Darcy frowning at this pronouncement, Elizabeth plucked up her courage and continued firmly, “If said woman desires a second proposal, she must disregard the indignity so abhorrent to his feelings and propose herself. Mr. Darcy, will you accept my hand in marriage?” Prologue, Such Novel Notions What has induced Elizabeth Bennet to do something so shocking just three weeks after her vehement and cruel rejection of this same man’s offer of marriage in Hunsford? While she is still reeling from the indisputable truths disclosed in the letter Mr. Darcy handed to her the ...
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characters grew stronger/ metanoia
- By okemos mama on 03-23-25
By: Eselle Teays
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Pride Under Good Regulation
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Eselle Teays
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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The Bennet family of Longbourn, Hertfordshire, had long been known to its neighbours as exceptionally learned though eccentric, but was tolerated because the first Bennets settled there more than four hundred years before, just after the great plague. Both the grandfather and father of the master, Mr. Thomas Bennet, married blue-stocking wives from the Continent. These circumstances had a profound effect on Mrs. Bennet and her five daughters. Because of this broader worldview, the Bennet family was more aware of, and affected by some historical events of the period far outside the twenty-...
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too perfect
- By Kindle Customer on 02-25-24
By: Eselle Teays
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Mr. Darcy's Present
- A Pride and Prejudice Holiday Vagary
- By: Regina Jeffers
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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The Greatest Present He Would Ever Receive is the Gift of Her Love… What if Mr. Darcy purchased a gift for Elizabeth Bennet to acknowledge the festive days even though he knows he will never present it to her? What if the gift is posted to the lady by his servants and without his knowledge? What if the enclosed card was meant for another and is more suggestive than a gentleman should share with an unmarried lady? Join Darcy and Elizabeth, for a holiday romp, loaded with delightful twists and turns no one expects, but one in which our favorite couple take a very different path in thwarting...
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Great read
- By Fabulous Mrs B on 05-09-24
By: Regina Jeffers
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Mr. Darcy's Complex Courtship
- A Darcy & Elizabeth Pride & Prejudice Variation
- By: Kelly Miller
- Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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In this Regency variation of Pride & Prejudice, shocking developments and unforeseen obstacles combine to drive Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy apart. Will they manage to overcome these impediments and find their happily ever after?
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A courtship with complications.
- By Marie on 12-25-24
By: Kelly Miller
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Saving Jane
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: AnnaMarie Wallace
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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The new tenant of Netherfield Park leaves Meryton without offering for Jane. He loves her but is reluctant to take on the support of her entire family in the event of Mr. Bennet's death, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are thus determined to force Jane to wed Mr. Collins. Lizzy will do anything to save Jane from such a fate! She spirits Jane away to the Gardiners in London. Determined not to let history repeat itself, they introduce themselves to new acquaintances as orphans with no other siblings. Romances flourish with Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy, but the two sisters are all too aware that the ...
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Elizabeth is a fibber
- By bebe on 09-05-24
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To Wake The Sleeping Dragon
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Selene L. Garrou
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
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To Wake The Sleeping Dragon WARNING: There are no actual Dragons in this Book Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France in December of the year 1804, he said to a room of his closest advisors and supporters, ‘China is a sleeping dragon, let her sleep for when she awakens, she will shake up the world!’ Those words set a chain of events that would change the destiny of several of England’s most prominent families. And the lives of a country squire and his small family of daughters, in ways they could have never dreamed possible. Thomas Bennett is a man whose entire life had fallen ...
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Fantastical
- By Kindle Costum on 09-27-24
By: Selene L. Garrou
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The Ruin of Elizabeth Bennet
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Darcie Rochester
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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After the deaths of their parents and the public disgrace of their youngest sister, the Bennet ladies are alone in the world. It falls upon Elizabeth to navigate their way, a nearly impossible task given their meager funds. When she becomes reacquainted with Mr. Darcy, she hopes she has found her salvation. But it is ruin he offers her. This book contains dark themes and scenes of a sensual nature. Reader discretion is advised.
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Top 10 P&P Variation
- By Sharon on 02-14-25
By: Darcie Rochester
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Blended Bennets
- A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Victoria Lynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Blended whiskey, blended family. Thomas Bennet is a successful second son, a man who went into trade when his older brother, Harold, inherited Longbourn. When Harold passes, Thomas and his two children (James and Elizabeth) return to Longbourn to live with Harold’s widow (Fanny) and four daughters (Jane, Mary, Catherine and Lydia). A full length novel that is a clean, low angst reimagining of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
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Just desserts, finally!
- By Maria PB on 02-09-25
By: Victoria Lynn
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Entailed To Heirs Female
- A Sweet Pride and Prejudice Variation
- By: Victoria Lynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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In this low angst, a sweet retelling of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet is not just idle, he is actively cruel. And Mrs. Bennet, while still uneducated, must do whatever she can to protect her daughters from their father. Mr. Darcy’s epiphany comes much earlier than in canon and it changes his relationships not only with the Bennets but with his sister, his cousin Anne, and Bingley. When the Bennet matriarch moves to an estate outside of Bath with her daughters, Bingley follows and so do both Darcy siblings.
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don't waste your credit
- By Christine on 04-01-25
By: Victoria Lynn
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- Karen Langford
- 12-06-24
Long and complicated
I absolutely dislike the virtual voice. It doesn’t have inflection and it’s hard to tell when it’s switching from one character to another. I wish you would go back to humans instead of computers.
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- Nicki Scott
- 05-18-24
Surprise ending!
I like how this author finds unique ways to enlighten characters who were notoriously ignorant in cannon. In this vagary, we see our beloved characters grow and evolve with a good dose of humor mixed into most scenes. The surprise ending is superb!
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- TM Starr
- 06-29-24
Why does a story set in Regency England have an American narrator?
Can u please change the narrator to a British accent. It is so painful to hear someone from modern day USA talking about reticules and all things Regency. If I could have given the performance negative stars, I would have. That being said, if you can change the accent, I will listen again and re-review. I enjoyed the story itself.
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- Fabulous Femme
- 04-28-24
Good Story
It's a shame it wasn't a traditional narrator. The story was good though. I wish there had been an epilogue.
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- Ruth
- 01-06-25
Unique storyline first half of book
I liked the uniqueness, but it got corny last third of the book. Very fast and predictable for me. The virtual voice had a lisp with many words, so that a bit distracting.
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- bebe
- 05-28-24
Confusing
Very confusing. Most of the time I listened I did not know what was going on. It was a pretty stupid book, all in all. The virtual voice performance was better than most I have heard.
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- Aleinad
- 06-09-24
What is the moral of the tale?
It is a moralistic tale with unrealistically brilliant female characters- accomplished and secretly rich. Unfortunately, I could not make out the moral of the tale. Apart from this, my main peeve is the flattening of the characters: there is just one personality shared by Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, and Charlotte to such an extent that it is difficult to distinguish among them. I usually do not mind the computer-generated voice, but in this case, I found it irritating.
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