Pride and Perpetration
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Doing for Jane Austen what Malaria did for travel in Asia, Pride and Perpetration is a story that includes improbable adventures, a very odd druid, and a dinosaur called Fluff.
In the year 2047, the world is laid waste. It is a frightening, post-apocalyptic land where existence is divided into a series of kingdoms ruled by dark magic. London is mostly in ruins, with a few ragged inhabitants, but no other city survives in this broken landscape.
Commander Fitz Darcy is the leader of a team of elite mercenaries, hired to protect the treasures of a powerfuland somewhat unpleasantsorcerer. A chance meeting with a dance troupe turns his stable world upside down, especially when he makes the acquaintance of Beth, a charismatic dancer and part-time palaeontologist. She quickly dominates all his thoughts.
When Fitz is wrongly accused of stealing a book of powerful magic from the sorcerers library, he has to flee the castle, along with Beth. Pursued across the ruins of England through caves and flying towns, Fitz and Beth must find their way to a mysterious White Wizard, who might be their only hope to protect them, and bring about the downfall of dark magic.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Speckled with puns, anachronisms, and literary references, this awkward fantasy novel struggles to link disparate elements into a believable story. In the year 2047, a "misguided spell" has set life back to the feudal era, and now a few powerful warlords and mages control the land. The Stolz, wizard-ruler of an out-of-the-way castle in Old Derbyshire, has hired a band of mercenaries led by Cmdr. Fitz Darcy to protect his treasure but even Fitz isn't prepared when a team of dancing girls led by would-be paleontologist Elizabeth "Beth" Bennet steals a spell book from the Stolz's library. Blamed for the crime, Fitz goes on the run with Beth and the book, embarking on a dangerous cross-country journey to deliver it to a mysterious White Wizard. Despite its title, Tyson's story merely cherry-picks Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to provide the names of a pair of quibbling lovers for this slow-paced but lighthearted fantasy adventure. (BookLife)
