Jane Austen
BATH, ENGLAND - MARCH 15: A plaque is displayed on a house that was occupied by Jane Austen when she lived in Bath, on March 15, 2012 in Bath, England. With only a few months to go until the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic games, Britain's tourist industry is hoping to benefit from the influx of athletes, officials and visitors.
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The books these kids read are neither literature nor thriller, it is more like watching TV where you don't have to apply your brains. They will never be able to enjoy books by the authors like Jane Austen or Mario Puzo
I write what feels right to me. What people take from it - to each his own. I'm the world's worst reviewer and I don't like analysing my writing. The negative criticism doesn't help me and I can't own anyone's response. It's simple really, the more you write, the better you get. I don't think of myself as a Jane Austen.
Most of the conditions that made possible the novels of Jane Austen no longer exist, so I knew from the outset it wasn't possible to write a novel with a proper marriage plot in it, in the traditional senseMore quotes »
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War, baseball and the makings of a hero
through a series of letters, Western Union telegrams, notes and newspaper clippings. Epistolary novels are nothing new – Jane Austen did it in Lady Susan a couple centuries ago – but there is something spectacularly special about the way Kluger writes this 6:35 PM from The Daily Graphic Read more »
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Amy Elizabeth Smith: Literary Politics: Who Would Jane Austen Vote For?
of us. As in, "I'm a liberal/conservative/indie and I like you, so I'll bet you're a liberal/conservative/indie, too." The real Jane Austen, the one born in 1775, was from a Tory family. You can't directly translate that to Romney for 2012, but it adds up 11:19 AM from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Are literary classics obsolete?
mean he wasn’t profoundly influenced by Dickens’s novels. On the pop fiction front, Helen Fielding doesn’t write a bit like Jane Austen in “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” so does that mean the founding text of chicklit simply couldn’t have been influenced by “Pride 5/30/12 from Salon Read more »
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Pride
the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays her female characters in a less than favorable light. In an effort to present the depiction of the average woman and to condemn that image, Austen portrays the women characters as inferior and dependent. from OpPapers.com Read more »
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'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut | The Nation | May. 16, 2012 | 25 Minutes (6,459 words)
(When you got real big, you read Kundera.) William Deresiewicz (bill at thenation.com) is a Nation contributing writer. His A Jane Austen Education is out in... Ann Beattie is an artist of the things we don’t say, or can’t, and that find expression anyway. from Longreads.com Read more »
