Topic: Jane Austen
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12 promising novels for spring 2013
Here are 12 spring 2013 fiction titles that we're looking forward to picking up.
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'Pride and Prejudice': 5 things you may not know about the classic novel
However much of an Austenite you are, these little-known facts may have escaped your notice.
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How well do you know 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Test your knowledge of Jane Austen's classic as it turns 200 today.
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Jane Austen: 10 quotes on her birthday
Here are 10 witty quotes by Jane Austen to mark her birthday.
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8 gifts for your favorite literature lover
Are you searching for a gift for the bibliophile in your life? Check out these books.
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The novel by tweet
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The novel by tweet
The microblogging site, Twitter, launches into serialized fiction for bored cubicle dwellers.
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The novel by tweet
The microblogging site, Twitter, launches into serialized fiction for bored cubicle dwellers.
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"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society"
"The Jane Austen Book Club" meets "84 Charing Cross Road"
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A little piece of Jane Austen
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The book whisperer
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Literary landmarks you've always wanted to see
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Opinion: The way to get your kids to read
Step 1: Unplug them. Step 2: Give them solitude.
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Review: 'The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë'
Laura Joh Rowland imagines the Brontë sisters as crime solvers in a mystery that doesn't exactly reach wuthering heights.
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At Wit's End,' a murder mystery awaits
Karen Joy Fowler follows up her bestselling 'The Jane Austen Book Club' with a tale of an old crime.'
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Opinion: Sex and sensibility: Why abstinence is the wrong focus
Waiting is devotion. And devotion is love.
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Letters to the Editor
Readers write about Bush's diplomacy, Benazir Bhutto's will, racial bias in soccer, and the overload of information in schools.
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New on DVD: 'Becoming Jane' and 'The Jane Austen Book Club'
Jane Austen's ever-popular canon of work has spawned two ancillary films: Anne Hathaway plays the author herself in a fanciful biopic, and an adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler's bestseller about a book club gleans romantic wisdom from Austen's novels.
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With 'Cassandra's Dream' Woody Allen once again gets away with murder
'Cassandra's Dream,' starring Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell, explores the seamy underside of upper-class British culture. But what we're left with is more ordinary than horrifying.
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Monitor Picks
Five things we think you'll like, including a TV compendium of Jane Austen, a food show for adventurous travelers, and a 24/7 guitar tutor of your own.
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Satellite navigation systems send trucks down the wrong routes in Britain
Drivers end up rolling through towns on roads meant for a horse and cart. Can people please stop running into Ena Wickens's roof?
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Is it harder to write or to wed?
Neither matrimony nor writing is easy, suggests Joshua Henkin in his thoughtful novel about a young husband in a writer’s workshop.
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