Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated Audiobook

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• “A postmodern confection [that’s] very, very funny.”

  — New York Times

• “Both quirky and hilarious.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “A merry comedy of pride, prejudice, and duplicity…Silly, sly, eccentric characters and brisk chatter make for a diverting romp.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• "A merry comedy of pride, prejudice, and duplicity.... Silly, sly, eccentric characters and brisk chatter make for a diverting romp.

  — Kirkus Reviews

• "Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect.

  — Alexandra Alter,New York Times

• "Witty and delightful.

  — BookPage

• A postmodern confection [that's] very, very funny.

  — Penelope Green, New York Times

• In the ever-booming Austen spinoff industry, where paeans to Mr. Darcy are the norm, rewriting a work of the master's in the guise of one of her detractors makes for an eccentrically cheeky tribute.

  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker

• "Both quirky and hilarious.

  — Publishers Weekly

• "Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked.

  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue

• "Show[s] a deep familiarity with [Austen's] life, work, and times.

  — Laura Miller,Slate

• "Wickedly funny.

  — Holly Parmalee, Serendipity

• Stillman has a fine eye for social niceties.

  — Library Journal, Editor's Pick

• "If you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love Stillman's Love & Friendship.

  — Paula Byrne, The Times (UK)

• "One of the classiest book-to-movie novelizations that's ever existed.

  — Rebecca Pahle, Film Journal International

• "A racy delight.

  — Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

• [A] fast, precise, and giddily dialectical costume romp.... Stillman captures the exquisite eroticism of high-society manners.

  — Richard Brody, New Yorker

• Delightfully droll.... Stillman so effortlessly, elegantly bridges the gap between his conniving aristocrats and Austen's that it's difficult to say where one's sensibility ends and the other's begins.

  — Kyle Smith, New York Post

• Flat-out hilarious -- find me a funnier screen stab at Austen, and I'm tempted to offer your money back personally.

  — Tim Robey, Telegraph

• A supremely elegant and delicately filigreed adaptation of Jane Austen's epistolary novella Lady Susan.

  — Justin Chang, Variety

• The perfect marriage between Stillman's absurdist wit and Austen's period manners.

  — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline

• So clever in its repartee.

  — Flavorwire