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booksblog.it » booksblog - Oct 1, 2008
Sono molti i libri che mi sono piaciuti ma pochi quelli che rileggerei una seconda volta. L’unico romanzo che confesso di rileggere sempre con piacere è “Orgoglio e pregiudizio” di Jane Austen. Una storia in costume …
Also tagged: books, keira knightley, curiosità, orgoglio e pregiudizio
writerswrite.com » Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog - Sep 27, 2008
A battle is raging over Jane Austen's home. Chawton in Hampshire is fighting to retain its title as the "true home" of Jane Austen. Austen spent the last years of her life in the village. But the city of Bath claims …
Also tagged: fiction, jane austen home
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 26, 2008
Stop me if you've heard this one: A young beauty of noble descent marries a congenitally boring peer of the English realm, who wants the marriage but also wants his mistress. What ensues is an unhappily-ever-after …
Also tagged: princess diana, hollywood, manhattan, ralph fiennes, treat, united kingdom, dodi al fayed, keira knightley, simon mcburney, duchess, central intelligence agency, hayley atwell, charlotte rampling, bette davis, saul dibb, dominic cooper, charles grey, georgiana spencer, knightley s, charles fox
jezebel.com » Jezebel - Sep 19, 2008
Esquire put up a slideshow of 75 books every man should read, and it is indeed a very good list. However, it's a very good list that's also extremely myopic. It relies way too heavily on the old white dude cannon …
Also tagged: anais nin, virginia woolf, joan didion, toni morrison, sylvia plath, jhumpa lahiri, isabel allende, zadie smith, alice walker, gustave flaubert, lorrie moore, jean rhys, flannery o connor, e annie proulx, jane smiley, charlotte bronte, barbara pym, shirley jackson, jhumpa for joy
jezebel.com » Jezebel - Sep 19, 2008
Jane Austen would have really enjoyed the feud that's taking place over which town has the right to call themselves her "real" home. Bath, which holds a Jane Austen Festival, claims that it is "internationally …
telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph UK News - Sep 19, 2008
Chawton and Bath fight over the title of Jane Austen's "true home".
guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Sep 8, 2008
Professor Kathryn Sutherland: Lost in Austen follows the adventures of Amanda Price, a modern woman who is transported into the world of Pride and Prejudice
Also tagged: books, media, television, culture
washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Aug 30, 2008
The Mount, Edith Wharton's home in the Berkshires, presents a face to the world rather like the old saying about mullet haircuts: business in front, party in the back. The main entrance is uninviting, set into the dull …
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telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph Travel - Aug 28, 2008
Stephen McClarence explores the Peak District a region that has grown accustomed to being in the movies.
Also tagged: movies, ralph fiennes, keira knightley, peak district, the duchess, jane eyre, chatsworth house, film tourism
guardian.co.uk » Books | guardian.co.uk - Aug 22, 2008
John Sutherland: What exactly were ITV executives thinking when they commissioned Lost in Austen?
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