Darcy's Days - Paperback

by Fitzwilliam Darcy (Author)

Darcy's Days is a historical fiction that depicts literature's favourite gentleman immersed in the world of 1796-1797 by the confessions of his own pen. This epistolary novel situates Darcy in the real history of England when Jane Austen first composed Pride and Prejudice. Darcy is a man of the world, a landed aristocrat with business concerns, a reader of science and literature, an advocate of revolution and the rights of man, and a citizen of a rising superpower involved in international warfare. He is also flesh and blood, and falls desperately in love with a woman of inferior birth and little beyond her wit and fine eyes to recommend her. Darcy's Days leads us through the turmoil of the early Romantic era as Darcy's life moves in parallel with Wordsworth, Gilpin, De Quincey, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and the baby Keats. The beloved and reviled characters of Pride and Prejudice assemble here to re-stage the original novel through the looking-glass of the hero's perspective. Darcy's confessions set off on an amusing, energetic romp through history, literature, and passionate love. It is a challenging novel that will appeal to pleasure readers and scholars alike.

Author Biography

Born in 1767 in Derbyshire, UK, near the village of Lambton, Fitzwilliam Darcy is the eldest child and only son of Lady Anne Darcy and Lord Franklin Darcy. He graduated from Cambridge University with first-class honours, and thereafter completed a young gentleman's tour of the Continent, visiting France, the Dutch Republic, Spain, the Swiss Republic, and Italy. Darcy returned to England just in time to mourn at the death-bed of his father, and assume the duties of managing his family estate of Pemberley. He has worked as landlord and master of the grand estate since 1792. This is his first book.