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Jane Austen Books
English author Jane Austen may have died over 190 years ago, but interests in her novels and life has never been stronger. Today there are new novels and nonfiction books being written by talented and creative authors to suplant the... [more]
English author Jane Austen may have died over 190 years ago, but interests in her novels and life has never been stronger. Today there are new novels and nonfiction books being written by talented and creative authors to suplant the 'need to feed' our obession with Jane Austen and her Regency life. Featured here are articles on Austen prequels, sequels, spinoffs and other Austen-esqu faire. It all started in 1914 when Sybil G. Brinton wrote Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen. Now there are hundreds to choose from! Enjoy.
What do Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, and C.S. Lewis think about Jane Austen's novels? Find out in Susannah Carson's newly published anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen. Here's the product description from Amazon:For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For...
- New Austen-related film releases in Netherlands (austenblog.com)
- Imagining Austen (normblog.typepad.com)
- ‘Dancing With Darcy’ (the-riotact.com)
You don't have to be a fan of Jane Austen to enjoy reading this tongue-in-cheek book. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! offers a slightly different take on Austen's familiar tale of romance and moral rightness. In this version, England has been taken over by zombies and the Bennets are forced to send their daughters off to learn deadly combat training. It's the perfect stocking...
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- Even Better With Zombies (gailgauthier.com)
Oh dear, I may have to go to New York this winter. The Morgan Library and Museum is running an exhibit called A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy - complete with manuscripts, first editions and personal letters, some not seen in 25 years. Drool.
From blogger.com
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- Close friends get to do sister act in Jane Austen play at CMC (news.google.com)
- 'Jane Austen's Life & Legacy'To Open At Morgan Library (news.google.com)
Bookgasm has a very fun guest post by Ben H. Winters, author of the recently published Jane Austen pastiche/adaptation/expansion Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
Since writing SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS, I've gotten a ton of feedback about how nice it is that I've made Jane Austen appealing to certain readers -- meaning readers who previously suffered a persistent allergy to The Classics. I am complimented for taking the...
From scienceblogs.com
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- Prejudice (blandwagon.blogspot.com)
- Daughters of Hawai'i Host Day at Queen Emma Summer Palace (news.google.com)
Quirk Classics has been making a lot of noise via its literary mash-ups that infuse classic novels of yesteryear with new scenes of horrific action. Ben H. Winter updates Jane Austen in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS, while Seth Grahame-Smith does the same with PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES: DELUXE HEIRLOOM EDITION.
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From bookgasm.com
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In Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, Caroline Bingley has her eyes set on marrying Fitzwilliam Darcy, a handsome gentleman of no small fortune. As anyone who is familiar with the novel knows, Mr. Darcy ends up marrying Elizabeth Bennett and Caroline is heartbroken to see the man she loves marry another woman. But Fitzwilliam has an American cousin Robert who sees Caroline weeping at the wedding. He's immediately smitten but will...
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- Recipe: Emma Wright's Deviled Eggs (news.google.com)
ITNJohn Sergeant turns Mr Darcy on his tourist trailITNJohn Sergeant is following in the footsteps of Matthew Macfadyen and Colin Firth. He too has played one of Britain's most loved literary characters - Mr ...and more »
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Attention London Janeites (and Janeites who can get to London on October 15): Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and most recently The Little Stranger, will discuss Dancing With Mr Darcy, a new collection of short stories inspired by Jane Austen and commissioned to mark the bicentenary of Austen’s arrival in the village [...]
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From austenblog.com
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Jane Austen is very funny. Her characters are vivid. The poise of her sentences is perfect. Her plots are pretty good—at least, they keep you reading. However, to write brilliant novels was not Jane Austen's foremost goal: What was most important ...
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A very classy Colin Firth came ready to celebrate Christmas in November! The dashing Mr. Darcy attended the World Film Premiere of Disney’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Odeon...
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- The dashing Mr Firth (search.live.com)
- A Single Man, Parnassus among 'prestigious' AFI FEST line-up (news.google.com)
- Name Firth films to win (news.google.com)
Mansfield Park (Oxford World Classics), by Jane Austen
