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Do you miss reading books? Have you been planning to read a book but just can’t find the one that you can sit with and read ...
There are a lot of classic novels that are becoming upcoming book-to-screen adaptations lately, from Wuthering Heights to the ...
Growing up as the youngest of four girls, writer Anuja Chauhan always found the fictional world of Jane Austen relatable. But you’d be mistaken to assume that Pride and Prejudice is her ...
With "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," writer-director Laura Piani delivers a rom-com tailor-made for Austen devotees that centers on a modern-day echo of "Persuasion"’s Anne Elliot, a woman named ...
Movie review Let me be clear right up front here: Some of “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” takes place at Shakespeare & Company, the longtime independent bookstore on Paris’ Left Bank, and most ...
Outside of direct adaptations, Austen's stories have been reinterpreted and retold extensively, giving life to some of the world’s most famous modern romance films, series and books - like ...
Standing near a decorative rose wall, Diane and four friends huddled in a circle, excitedly sharing their finds after a half-hour shopping spree: a pale green edition of Emma by Jane Austen, a ...
The Harry Ransom Center hosts a book launch for The Novel Life of Jane Austen on Thursday, May 1. Barchas also appears at BookPeople’s Jane Austen Day event on Sunday, May 4.
In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer Egan, Kevin Kwan, Helen Fielding, and Vivian Gornick spoke about Austen ...
‘Jane Austen’s Bookshelf’ Review: Eliza Bennet’s Godmothers A rare-book dealer traces the books that Austen admired. Many were by women writers who were the literary stars of their day.
Those themes are themes that Austen picks up in books like Persuasion, and you can see these conversations between these two women across novels saying, "Protect yourself because the law will knock." ...
In the case of Austen’s predecessors, too, there is a “happily ever after”: if you have ever wished Jane Austen had written more books, a bookshelf full of her favourite writers is just ...