Topic: Jane Austen
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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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'All Roads Lead to Austen': 4 stories from reading Jane in Latin America
Writer Amy Elizabeth Smart traveled through several countries to see how Austen translated across cultures. Here are 4 of her stories.
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The 100 best books of all time
How many of these "100 best books of all time" have you read?
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Mother's Day: 10 great books for Mom
You've probably already done the classics – try these 10 books for a gift this Mother's Day.
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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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Top Picks: Elegantly bound classic books, a Cold War miniseries, and more
National Geographic showcases some big cats, Nokia does Apple one better by offering clear directions, and more.
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Anna Karenina: Keira Knightley is literature's tragic heroine (+video)
Anna Karenia: When 'Anna Karenina' – starring Keira Knightley – gets a theatrical turn, curtains and catwalks make it a little arch.
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Literary classics get the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' treatmentClassics are getting steamy makeovers, from 'Pride and Prejudice' to... 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'?
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'All Roads Lead to Austen': 4 stories from reading Jane in Latin America
Writer Amy Elizabeth Smart traveled through several countries to see how Austen translated across cultures. Here are 4 of her stories.
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New Ways to Kill Your Mother
Author and essayist Colm Tóibín explores the ways that writers' families influence their work.
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The 100 best books of all time
How many of these "100 best books of all time" have you read?
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Mother's Day: 10 great books for Mom
You've probably already done the classics – try these 10 books for a gift this Mother's Day.
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'The Raven': 5 other movies that turned well-known figures into action heroes
As Edgar Allan Poe hunts a murderer in 'The Raven,' here are 5 other movies that took well-known historical and literary figures and made them action stars
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Swimming: 8 facts – trivial and not – from 'Swim'
From author and journalist Lynn Sherr's new book 'Swim,' here are 8 facts about the history of humans in the water
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6 life lessons a male reader learned from Jane Austen
Writer William Deresiewicz shares how Austen changed his life in "A Jane Austen Education."
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15 spring 2012 novels we think you'll like
A preview of new novels coming this spring.
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Valentine's Day: 10 literary lessons in love
From 'Much Ado About Loving' by Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly, 10 lessons in love from literary classics.
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10 sequels based on a classic book
10 authors who wrote a novel based in another author's literary world.
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5 best mysteries of the holiday season
From Austen and Conan Doyle imitators to a reporter following a mysterious homicide, these five novels are sure to please any mystery fan
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'Pride and Prejudice' from Greer Garson to murder mystery
Jane Austen's classic book from the original novel to the newest take on the story, 'Death Comes to Pemberley'
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6 perfect gifts for the book lover in your life
Six perfect gift choices for the bibliophile on your gift list.
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Reader recommendation: Mansfield Park
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Reader recommendation: A Jane Austen Education
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Chapter & Verse
Beloved Roald Dahl book "The BFG" will get the big-screen treatmentThe 1982 children's novel will be adapted by "E.T." screenwriter Melissa Mathison.
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Chapter & Verse
iPad book apps designed to thrill serious book loversiPad book apps add authors' notes and historical material to classics like "Atlas Shrugged," "On the Road,"and the complete works of Shakespeare.
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What are the toughest questions tossed at reference librarians?Think it's easy being a librarian? Think again!
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Harry Potter is just like ... what? Five leading templates for comparison.
Harry Potter fans just know they love the record-breaking series of books. But everyone from academics to mythologists, classicists to historians, and literary critics to, well, geeks have a special “template” they perceive at the heart of the tale.
From positing Albus Dumbledore as the infamous Richard III to taking us aloft the scaly back of St. George’s dragon, here are five of our top takes on what’s going on behind the scenes in the Harry Potter narratives.
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Unfinished Jane Austen manuscript goes up for auctionThe only surviving copy of Jane Austen's unfinished novel, 'The Watsons,' goes up for auction at Sotheby's on Thursday.
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