PEOPLE pack their bookshelves with 80 books they haven’t read in a bid to make themselves look more intelligent, a new study reveals.
The research found that 70 per cent of books on display in the average British household remain unopened and a third of people admit they have no intention of reading them.
For the complete article, visit The Daily Express Reporter at http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/276005/Take-a-leaf-out-of-my-book-and-look-smart-Jane-Austen-helps-to-keep-up-appearances
Jane Austen is so popular these days she’s probably been a write-in candidate in more than one election. Who knows, she might even have won some of them.
When I started reading Austen in college in the mid-70s, the amazing Austen boom hadn’t taken place. Bookstores didn’t teem with Austen mugs, memo pads, tote bags, dolls and key-chains. Our TV, movie, tablet and smartphone screens weren’t filled with Austen adaptations. She didn’t permeate our entire culture, but she bedazzled me anyway.
To read the complete article, visit The Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lev-raphael/loving-jane-austen_b_943027.html
from BBC News and Entertainment
Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon is a collection of stories never submitted for publication in Jane Austen’s lifetime. They are little known except by the most hardcore Austen fanatics. For a description of each piece, please visit XMediaOnline at http://xmedia.ex.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=150%3Athe-forgotten-treasures-of-jane-austen&catid=3%3Abooks&Itemid=11 |
Like deft, elegant, Golden Age-ish detective fiction? Like Pride and Prejudice? On November 3, Faber is publishing Death Comes to Pemberley: a crime novel set in Jane Austen’s universe by none other than PD James.
“The year,” runs the press release, “is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth’s beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, the ordered and secure life of Pemberley seems unassailable, and Elizabeth’s happiness in her marriage is complete. But their peace is threatened and old sins and misunderstandings are rekindled on the eve of the annual autumn ball. The Darcys and their guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley’s wild woodland, and as it pulls up, Lydia Wickham, an uninvited guest, tumbles out, screaming that her husband has been murdered.” How about that?
For the complete article, visit The Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/sep/22/janeausten-pdjames?newsfeed=true
As a point of reference, my own The Phantom of Pemberley is an equally engaging cozy mystery. I am currently writing another P&P mystery, The Disappearance of Georgiana Darcy. It will be released in February 2012.
Want to eat English author Jane Austen’s favorite almond cake on what would have been her 236th birthday while discussing her most popular novel, “Pride and Prejudice?”
You can do just that as part of “A Year With Jane Austen,” a series of Regency Teas kicking off Friday at the Victorian Rose Garden Bed and Breakfast in Algonquin. Austen was born Dec. 16, 1775, and published all her books in the Regency period from 1811 to 1820.
Austen may have lived two centuries ago, but her novels are just as relevant today, if not more, said Linda Levengood, of Crystal Lake, a Jane Austen enthusiast who will be leading the series.
Read more: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20111003/news/710039805/#ixzz1ZlbroYWo
It is a truth universally acknowledged that, despite their advancing years, Jane Austen’s novels continue to dominate our literary consciousness. Sense and Sensibility may be celebrating its bicentennial this year, with Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma enjoying similar anniversaries in the coming decade, but they remain some of the best-loved, most influential and timeless books of English literature.
For the complete article, visit http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/jane-austen-the-ultimate-undead-writer
Sylvia created this one and posted it on Facebook. I am need of my daily Matthew fix.
Why is it that a perfectly mediocre day became an EXCELLENT day when Doris sent me a new picture of Matthew? I am so looking forward to release of The Three Musketeers on October 22.
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