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Jane Austen

"When Thinking about Creating Titles Becomes a Distress" (Community)

Titles of the books and publishes play nearly but not exactly the same role of names for the human newborn babies. As any newborn baby needs to a name, to be known by it and becomes an integral part of his identity during his...

Gomorrah: gangsters we hate to love

As The Godfather is voted the best film of all time, and Gomorrah opens in the cinema, Sheila Johnston wonders why we just can't get enough of Mafia Movies The Godfather was last week voted the best film of all time, deposing...

Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë

LEFT: Jane Austen 454 59.04% Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was a British novelist whose realism, biting social commentary, and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque, and irony have earned her a place...

Stob latest: It was a cunning trick, says Open University

Pull the other one Why does the Open University set its students gibberish, Verity Stob asked here recently? We decided to investigate. As our enquiries continued at the Open University, it became harder to find anyone who took...

Jory Directs His 'Pride and Prejudice' at Actors Theatre (Playbill)

Playbill - Actors Theatre of Louisville's former artistic director, Jon Jory, has returned to the Tony Award-winning Kentucky company to direct his own adaptation, Pride and Prejudice, from the novel by Jane Austen, playing...

A belated entry in the latest Planet Ubuntu meme

I've had connectivity problems, but I think I have it under control now, so I'll jump in with my contribution to the world's knowledge of what Ubuntu members are naming their systems. I use guitar models. My current and past...

Opening Lines

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. - Charles Williams, War in Heaven It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...

Arts & Cultural Council honors seven area artists

Stuart Low • Staff writer • September 28, 2008 After local storyteller Jay Stetzer is honored next month by the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, he'll have a great tale to tell his family and friends. He'll...

Christmas Fairs & Markets in South-West England

Shop For Gifts and Soak Up The Festive Spirit Festive holiday fairs and craft markets are held all over Britain, some with free admission. Christmas with Caesar and Jane Austen The city of Bath holds its 2008 Christmas...

Don't be stuffy over screen adaptations

A N Wilson pays tribute to the skill involved in turning books into film Addicts, not merely of Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece, but also of the 1981 Granada Television version of Brideshead Revisited can only look forward...