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Emma Woodhouse and Mr. Knightley won the literary world’s
heart 200 years ago when Jane Austen first penned the story of their
friendship-turned-love. Emma is the
young, rich, beautiful heroine with too much time on her hands and an
overactive imagination; Mr. Knightley is her long-suffering friend who is
always trying to steer her in the right direction.
Their love story is one of deep, dedicated affection
blooming into passion. But what about
all of that sexual tension that crackles in the subtext? In this Wild and Wanton edition of Austen’s
classic, Emma and Mr. Knightley burn up the pages as they give in to their
baser natures. Discover the sexy scenes
that readers of Emma have been imagining between Austen’s lines since 1815.
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Sneak Peak
She was his own Emma, by hand and word.
He made a noise that seemed to emanate from deep within his
chest, and the light kisses he had been gifting her with continued to travel up
from her wrist to her inner forearm, to the hallow of her elbow at which point
she completely forgot how to breathe.
He began to talk again, his breath caressing her skin as
completely as his lips had seconds ago.
“You have made me a very happy man, my Emma.” He punctuated the endearment with another
kiss to her upper arm. “I had dared not
to hope—” a kiss to her cloth-covered shoulder “—dared not to dream.”
His words trailed off as he pressed an open-mouth kiss to
her collarbone. She felt the sweep of
something velvety and wet, and her body jolted as she realised it was his
tongue. She heard herself make a noise,
and heard him echo it.
“I am forgetting myself, dearest,” he said hoarsely into the
patch of damp skin. “Remind me,” he
begged. “Remind me of how I should
behave.”
Her Mr. Knightley, Emma thought with exultation, always so
concerned with how one should behave.
Emma was entirely uninterested in proper behaviour at this moment. “Not
yet,” she whispered into his hair, the scent of the garden and sunshine
greeting her as she rested her cheek against his head. “Please not yet.”
He groaned and his kisses moved to the hallow of her
throat. “Your wish, my lady.”
As this was my First Time reading EMMA, yes, I did say my First Time (Huge Pride and Prejudice Fan over here) I have to say that I think EVERYONE needs to read Micah Persell's edition...I believe it wouldn't be as boring, and would hold your interest a bit more.
From page one, I found myself falling into the poetic prose, how the words just seemed to flow one into another, and I can tell you the truth, if I didn't know that the "Naughty Bits" weren't in the original, I wouldn't have been able to tell where Austen left off and Persell took over. The speech and language used by Persell was impeccable, truly amazingly written.
The story for me, if reading it without the "extra action" was a bit boring, nothing against Jane Austen, but I think the best parts were the ones where Micah added a little "spice" to the story, a little groping her and there never hurt anyone. Two pages in and I already needed a fan!
Austen fans, I would recommend this "Wild & Wanton" edition to all of you. I know that there are SO MANY adaptions to Austen's works and it gets tiresome, but the way this story flows and the naturalness of the editions to the story make it such a realistic encounter that I was truly blown away. I am so glad that I lost my "Emma V-Card" to EMMA: THE WILD AND WANTON EDITION.
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Meet Micah & Jane
Jane Austen is one of the most beloved
authors of all time. She never married,
and as far as we know, she died a virgin.
More’s the pity.
Micah Persell is the award-winning author
of the paranormal romance series Operation:
Middle of the Garden. She holds a
bachelor’s degree in English and a double master’s degree in English pedagogy
and literature, and she found particular delight in driving her professors to
madness by imagining the characters’ salacious untold stories during class
discussions of “serious literature.” She
is beyond thrilled that the object of her professors’ horror is now her
profession.
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6 comments:
emma is my favorite
I have never actually read any of jane austen's novels so I would have to say that if I were to read one it would be Pride and Prejudice.
I loved the original Emma, the book and the movie with Gwyneth Paltrow. I am sure this version will be really good, based on your description and the excerpt!
I have not read Jane Austen's books. I started the Pride and the Prejudice but never finished it.
Will enter under the name of Virginia
I can't think of any book titles right now.I would love to read this book. It sounds really
I wanted to let you know that I nominated you for the Sunshine Award! Thanks for all that you do! http://romancebookworm.com/2013/04/20/sunshine-award-me/
Love you!
Brandy
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