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Monday | Peter Scott's Library Blog

British Library to offer 19th Century first editions for free download on Amazon Kindle

The British Library is to make more than 65,000 rare first editions of 19th Century fiction available for the public to download for free from the spring.

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Sun Feb 07, 2010

Times Record News

Sweeten-Shults: Keep your undead hands off my Jane Austen

I don't know about you, but I've just about had it with these zombies. Except for "Zombieland" that was pretty darn skippy and "Shawn of the Dead," of course.

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Sat Feb 06, 2010

UK News from Times Online

British Library to offer free ebook downloads

MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library's collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring.

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Fri Feb 05, 2010

Dayton Daily News

25 great novels and some that could become classics

Libraries are magical places. I spend such pleasant hours surrounded by stacks of books - a library is like home away from home.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Centerville, OH, Pride and Prejudice, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Vocal, Mark Twain

The Newberg Graphic

British drama comes to Newberg

The drama troupe at Newberg High School holds a dress rehearsal for the upcoming performance of Jane Austen's - Pride and Prejudice.' A A Mr.

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Wed Feb 03, 2010

ContractsProf Blog

Jane Austen on Contracts to Dance

Thus the dashing Mr. Tilney addresses Catherine Morland, heroine of Northanger Abbey , upon discovering her in conversation with the odious Mr.

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Tue Feb 02, 2010

Examiner.com

10 best romantic novels for people who hate romance

Romantic novels are a lot like okra: you either like them or you don't. There isn't much in-between. I detest romantic novels -- and okra -- with a passion bordering on the evangelical.

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Related Topix: Persuasion, Drama Movies, Vocal, Jane Eyre, Arts, Literature

Mon Feb 01, 2010

Time Out New York

Ben Winters on Jane Austen mash-ups

In this week's issue, we asked Ben Winters and Nancy Butler - the authors of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and the Marvel Illustrated version of Pride & Prejudice , respectively - to translate two letters Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra, in the 1800s .

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Sun Jan 31, 2010

Brentwood Press

SRCT to hold auditions...

State Right Conservatory Theatre, Inc. will hold auditions for "Pride and Prejudice" on January 25th & 26th at 5pm.

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Sat Jan 30, 2010

Associated Content

What on Earth: A Daily Quiz - January 28

Test your knowledge of history, celebrities and pop culture with a quiz on this day's events.

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Fri Jan 29, 2010

News Times

Native Cathleen Schine returns to Westport in new novel

As you might expect from the title, a Fairfield County town we all know -- and some of us love -- plays a major role in the new Cathleen Schine novel, "The Three Weissmanns of Westport" which the Sarah Crichton Books division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux is publishing Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Westport, CT, Fairfield County, CT, Publishing, Media, Vocal, Theater, Arts, Madison, CT, Entertainment

Thu Jan 28, 2010

Southtyneside Today

Young guns go for it again

OF all the syllabus books those of us of a certain age had to read at secondary school, one of the mostly fondly remembered is The Machine Gunners.

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Entertainment Weekly

Jane Austen: You rate 11 films/TV

When Ken Tucker asked for your fave on-screen version of the author's work, he launched a message board debate.

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Wed Jan 27, 2010

AustenBlog . . . she's everywhere

It worked so well for Charlotte Lucas

Alert Janeite slw sent us a link to an article in the Guardian about a new book that purports that women should not wait for Mr.

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Tue Jan 26, 2010

Bronte Blog

Ah, that great American writer Charlotte Bronte

A couple of newspapers use the BrontA s to discuss Lori Gottlieb's book Marry Him: The Case For Settling For Mr Good Enough .

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BellaOnline

Alliteration in Baby Names for Twins

Alliterative words share a particular sound . They make attractive pairings because, together, they are catchy and memorable.

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Mon Jan 25, 2010

Cape Cod Times

A perfect match

There can be too much of a good thing, but a great thing can be remade over and over.

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Related Topix: Emma, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Pride & Prejudice, Pride and Prejudice, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Vocal

Sun Jan 24, 2010

EntertainmentWeekly

TV Review: Jane Austen: Fave adaptation?

Does your heart pitter-patter when Gwyenth Paltrow's Emma Woodhouse makes clipped, eloquent cooings with Mr.

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Sat Jan 23, 2010

Cleveland.com

Audiences can't get enough of Austen's 'Emma'

The latest incarnation of Jane Austen's "Emma," starring Romola Garai in the title role and Rupert Evans as Frank Churchill, begins Sunday on PBS' "Masterpiece." When she started "Emma" in 1814, Jane Austen declared, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." To quote Cher, the 20th-century Emma of the clever 1995 movie ...

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New York Times

On Kindle's List, the Best Sellers Don't Necessarily Need to Sell

Two novels by Ms. Johnson. "Scarlett Fever," the latest in a series for young adults, is due out in hardcover on Feb.

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