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"I have now attained the true art of letter-writing..."

Fizz — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:08:41 -0800

Post & Prejudice: [guardian.co.uk] "The Royal Mail is joining in the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice with the release of a series of stamps featuring all six of Jane Austen's novels. Royal Mail commissioned the artwork by Angela Barrett." [Slideshow]

Tootleg Boy audiobook defacement

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:47:21 -0800

These audio files contain profanity:
The Lord of the Books of the Fifty-Five Arse-Hymens of Stone
Pride and Prejudice and 367 Pages of Balls and Young Men
Pride and Prejudice and Praise and Porridge and Presents and Pedantic Ponies and Pride and Pride and Pride and Proud and Priiide

"Look at Miss Darcy, swanning around owning property, riding into town at will, choosing whether or not to ask someone to dance – the bitch!"

Kattullus — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:00:21 -0800

Miss Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of her burial was signed by the clergywoman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Miss Scrooge signed it: and Miss Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything she chose to put her hand to. Old Miss Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Genderswitching the Classics is a project by Kate Harrad where she takes classic works of literature and changes everyone's gender. So far she's done A Christmas Carol, two Sherlock Holmes stories, a Father Brown tale and, most ambitiously, Pride and Prejudice (first seven chapters are here). Harrad is now at work on James Eyre. She wrote about her project for The Guardian.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of vial of arsenic, must be in want of a wife."

Fizz — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:18:12 -0800

Jane Austen 'died from arsenic poisoning'. [The Guardian] Crime writer Lindsay Ashford bases claim on reading of author's letters and claims murder cannot be ruled out. Almost 200 years after she died, Jane Austen's early death at the age of just 41 has been attributed to many things, from cancer to Addison's disease. Now sleuthing from a crime novelist has uncovered a new possibility: arsenic poisoning.

"And inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too."

Fizz — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:49:49 -0800

"I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not. I think [it is] unequal to me." VS Naipaul, no stranger to literary spats and rows, has done it again. This time, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature has lashed out at female authors, saying there is no woman writer whom he considers his equal – and singling out Jane Austen for particular criticism.

A true ironist in an era of ersatz irony

Potomac Avenue — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:57:59 -0800

Fran Lebowitz: Reflections on Austen The monologist and sometime writer (previously) was the subject of a Martin Scorsese documentary last year. Here she is talking about it and her life on Charlie Rose. Here she is in 1995 reading and answering questions. Here is an interview with Time about various things.

We are no longer good society.

Tesseractive — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:47:19 -0800

Jane Austen's Fight Club. [SLYT]

Jane Austen Horror #2

The Devil Tesla — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:40:10 -0800

The publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies announces that book's follow up in the most awesome way possible.

Zombies and Aliens and Darcy, Oh my!

misha — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:49:06 -0800

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." Jane Austen, who last year, along with her sisters, engaged in the deadly earnest fight against "unmentionables" in Seth Grahame-Smith's work, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has sadly fallen prey once more, this time to aliens. Coming next year to a theater near you, from Elton John's Rocket Pictures.

Public Domain Is A Wonderful, Scary Thing

mannequito — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:53:43 -0800

Coming Soon : Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (from the authors of such classics as Mansfield Park and The Big Book Of Porn).

Jane Austen. Facebook. What else can I say?

mojohand — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:16:18 -0800

Austenbook. It's trivial. It's silly. I grinned.

17 UK Publishers Reject Disguised Jane Austen

CunningLinguist — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:35:54 -0800

"It seems like a really original and interesting read." It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first line of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is one of literature's most famous, wittily kicking off one of the most beloved of all classics. And yet, 17 British publishers failed to recognize it and rejected the manuscript when Jane's name and the title were changed. What happens when the gatekeepers of literature are illiterate?