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Jane Austen Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Jane Austen.

Results 1 - 20 of 630 in Jane Austen

  1. My FiveRead the original story

    23 hrs ago | Omaha World-Herald

    ... Kuttner created this instrument in 1984. "It has the big sound that I crave." 2. "Pride and Prejudice." "I love Jane Austen's style and subtle sense of humor." 3. Panthers sweatshirt. The Charlotte, N.C., native is a football fanatic. "I love to ...

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    Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Omaha, NE

  2. Seduction without the sexRead the original story

    Yesterday | The Independent

    ... was barely aware of her. At first glance, she was just a blur, a slick of grey nothing. Beware of mice." As in Jane Austen, much significance is invested in the tiniest gestures. Whether or not Richard will touch Sylvie's hand in a coffee shop ...

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  3. Paperback FictionRead the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | NPR

    ... trip to the bookstore -- zombies have invaded a classic. The living dead have come to Longbourn, the land of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Author -- make that co-author -- Seth Grahame-Smith altered Jane Austen's original text ever so slightly ...

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  4. Seduction without the sex: Sleep With MeRead the original story

    Yesterday | The Independent

    ... was barely aware of her. At first glance, she was just a blur, a slick of grey nothing. Beware of mice." As in Jane Austen, much significance is invested in the tiniest gestures. Whether or not Richard will touch Sylvie's hand in a coffee shop ...

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  5. A Truth Universally Acknowledged: About Jane AustenRead the original story

    Friday | Blowin' In The Wind

    Janeites will love A Truth Universally Acknowledged, a collection of essays by 33 famous writers and critics acknowledging the genius of Jane Austen.

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  6. Using Sony Readers to share classics with others: Upbeat public library story for the holidays

    Thursday | TeleRead

    A small Oregon library will lend out three Sony Readers to patrons - complete with public domain classics such as Jane Austen 's Pride and Prejudice and Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland .

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  7. Quiz: Test your vampire knowledgeRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | USA Today

    ... by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan 2. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris 3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith 4. Dracula: The Undead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt 5 Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer The deadly ...

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  8. Michael Fassbender on becoming Mr RochesterRead the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | Bronte Blog

    ... own private fantasies of aggrieved victimhood. Adaptations of BrontA 's work haven't reached the fever pitch of Jane Austen knockoffs, but "Jane Eyre" got zombies in a 1943 Val Lewton horror movie, almost 70 years before the undead crawled into ...

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  9. What now for Bath's transport and the Bus Rapid Transit?Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 23 | This is bath

    ... when I dreamt Councillor Haeberling was spending a Dickensian Christmas, this year Mrs Haeberling was spending a Jane Austen Christmas, with a sprinkling of The Beatles and a smidgen of Monty Python (plus some interlopers). In my dream (or was it a ...

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  10. a Good Read: Jane Austen is alive and well in literature and Tri-City libraries

    Tuesday Dec 22 | Tri-City News

    Jane Austen's life may have been "uneventful," according to her brother, but her novels continue to thrill and fascinate readers nearly 200 years after her death.

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    Related Topix: Vocal, Libraries, Arts, Literature, British Columbia, Coquitlam, BC, Canada

  11. 2009: The year in booksRead the original story w/Photo

    Tuesday Dec 22 | The Portland Phoenix

    ... across our eyeballs a ' far rarer is the story that keeps grinning all the way through Armageddon. a A Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies A (Quirk) The ultimate high-concept-book idea was also the phenomenon of the ...

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  12. To know Austen is to love her

    Tuesday Dec 22 | StarTribune

    Why are we still obsessed with Jane Austen? Perhaps it is because no matter how modern any of us seem, love and romance are just as important to readers now as they were at the time of her death.

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  13. You as a CharacterRead the original story w/Photo

    Tuesday Dec 22 | Magical Musings

    Marilyn Brant recently blogged about a party she'd attended celebrating Jane Austen 234th birthday .

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  14. Students Learn Classics From Music

    Tuesday Dec 22 | OfficialWire

    ... tracks to learn about GCSE-required texts including William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," The Times of London Online reported Monday. "By working with forward-thinking teachers to derive content directly ...

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  15. Chavez students work to catch up during breakRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday Dec 21 | Houston Chronicle

    ... help seniors graduate on time. She admits that holding students' interest - especially a bunch of boys reading Jane Austen - has required her to step up her game. Sunday, she had a bucket of ice water on hand to wake sleepy students. She also took ...

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  16. A Jane Austen spinoff that doesn't suckRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday Dec 21 | The Baltimore Sun

    Every month, I'd estimate that we receive about five books based on Jane Austen's life or books, and most of them are pretty, well, dreadful.

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  17. Casting Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    Monday Dec 21 | Film.com

    It's rare that a year goes by without some sort of remake or re-imagining of one of Jane Austen's novels, and it looks like 2010 will be no exception.

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    Related Topix: Pride and Prejudice, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Pride & Prejudice, Vocal, Charlie Hunnam, Colin Firth, Sense and Sensibility

  18. GCSE pupils tune in to rock and rap to learn...Read the original story

    Monday Dec 21 | Times Online

    ... now argue that they are, in fact, working hard. Singing along to songs about classics, including Shakespeare and Jane Austen, is the latest technique adopted by schools to boost academic performance. Three dozen schools have downloaded specially ...

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  19. GCSE students learn Shakespeare 'the rock n roll way'

    Monday Dec 21 | The London News.Net

    London, Dec 21 : British schools have come up with a novel method to boost the interest of students in classics - children can now listen to the works of Shakespeare and Jane Austen as rap, pop and rock songs on their iPods.

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  20. 800 Chavez High students work to catch up during breakRead the original story w/Photo

    Sunday Dec 20 | Houston Chronicle

    ... help seniors graduate on time. She admits that holding students' interest - especially a bunch of boys reading Jane Austen - has required her to step up her game. Sunday, she had a bucket of ice water on hand to wake sleepy students. She also took ...

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    Related Topix: Education Etc.