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Hot Scribble: 10 Greatest First Lines of Literature

by The Reader on December 8, 2011

Whenever I’m on the fence about buying a book, I turn to page 1 and read its opening line. Considering the amount of time authors spend obsessing over the first words of their tome, you’d think all openings would be amazing. And yet, they’re not. Constructing an original, provocative opening sentence is eons harder than [...]

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Lights! Camera! Austen! The Five Best Screen Adaptations

by Guest Post on November 14, 2011

There have been ten English-language television and screen versions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice alone in addition to movies and books clearly inspired by what is arguably Miss Austen’s most famous work (think the movie Bride and Prejudice and the novel Pride, Prejudice and Zombies). In a recent made-for-DVD movie called The 12 Men [...]

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Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on August 12, 2008

When I was first introduced to Jane Austen, I was excited. Finally I get to see what all the fuss was about. Why Emma Thompson is obsessed with making films of her novels and why Saturday Night Live took such glee is parodying them.

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