Pride and Prejudice (1813) is the best known of the novels of Jane Austen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen). There have been at least six major treatments of the novel on film and television not counting spin-offs such as the 2004 Bollywood ‘Bride and Prejudice’. As entertaining, hilarious and insightful as the story of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy is, […]
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The Rainbow (1915) shocked its first readers by its frankness about humans as incarnate beings. The body and its impulsive needs are central to this inter-generational tale and the truth of these things rings out like a silver coin thrown down on stone. The author has broken decisively with Victorian fiction. The novel is about
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This ultra-modernist tale of jazz age America from 1925 is much in the glare of publicity at the moment (May 2013) due to the release of another Hollywood film version (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/), this time with Leonardo diCaprio as Jay. F Scott Fitzgerald’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fitzgerald and http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html) famous work regularly tops polls of ‘best American novel ever written’ or even ‘best
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Kate Croy and Merton Densher are two betrothed Londoners who desperately want to marry but have very little money. Kate is constantly put upon by family troubles, and is now living with her domineering aunt, Maud Lowder. Into their world comes Milly Theale, an enormously rich young American woman who had previously met and fallen in love
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