Jane Austen

It’s a dark time day for us booklovers, especially the U.S. variety. Noting the many high-lit imports that inspired high-brow movies and TV shows here in the States, the Atlantic asks: “Is American literature too Too Dark for TV?” The subhead warns: “The executive producer of Masterpiece Theater says Jane Austen works a lot better on screen than Hemingway does.” […]

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I’m going back to the UK for a week from Hungary to touch base with family, friends and some things literary as well. Besides literary London and Gothic London, and Jane Austen’s Hampshire, I’ll also be trying to see some significant British writers and editors, and communing with something less tangible: The spirit of English […]

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Kindle Unlimited and the Only Amazon Numbers We Know for Sure (Dear Author) But since the announcement of Kindle Unlimited, Amazon has shared (albeit reluctantly as you will see) actual numbers which show the performance of one of its most recent consumer launches. *** Jane Austen’s Fashion history: 200 Years of Cover Designs – in […]

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The Austen Project from Harper Collins is now fully under way, pairing “six bestselling contemporary authors with Jane Austen’s six complete works,” according to the introductory blurb. “Taking these well-loved stories as their base, each author will write their own unique take on Jane Austen’s novels.” The first in the series, Sense and Sensibility, reimagined [...]

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This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s masterpiece Pride and Prejudice, as of today still ranked #7 in the Fiction Classics category of the Amazon Kindle Store and #252 in the Top Free Kindle ebook listings. Since I’m presently staying in Austen’s native county of Hampshire, I dropped in on [...]

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For all the hand wringing over the coming extinction of the printed book, there’s one form of printed paper that looks unlikely to go out of style any time soon: The banknote. That’s one piece of print that everyone sees and no one disregards. Hence perhaps the public furor and media circus over the Bank [...]

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