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The Annotated Emma, by Jane Austen, Annotated and Edited by David M. Shapard – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 24 March 2012 | 15 Comments »

Of all of Jane Austen’s six major works, I have always been daunted by Emma: both the novel and its eponymous heroine. It is Austen’s longest work and contains her most “troublesome creature” Miss Emma Woodhouse. I am not alone in my challenge to understand and appreciate this clever tale. The first time I read [...]

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Sense and Sensibility (The Jane Austen Bicentenary Library), by Jane Austen, annotated by Margaret C. Sullivan, illustrated by Cassandra Chouinard – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged , , , , , , on 23 November 2011 | 8 Comments »

As 2011 marks the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, we are offered another annotated edition to help us understand the social and historical context of the world that Jane Austen places us into in late eighteenth century England. The Sense and Sensibility (The Jane Austen Bicentenary Library) is the [...]

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Persuasion: An Annotated Edition, by Jane Austen, edited by Robert Morrison – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 18 November 2011 | 15 Comments »

Last year, the good folks at the Harvard University Press presented the first installment in their commitment to annotate all six of Jane Austen’s major novels. Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, by Jane Austen and edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks set the standard for the series: an unabridged first edition text, annotations by an [...]

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Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Naxos Audiobooks) – A Review

Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged , , , , , , , on 21 September 2011 | 44 Comments »

Even though it has been two hundred years since the world was first introduced to sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood’s financial, social and romantic trials, their story remains for me, as fresh and vibrant as any contemporary story you might read of, experience yourself, or hear tell tale of today. I give full credit, of [...]

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The Annotated Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, Edited and Annotated by David M. Shapard – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Reading Challenges, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 25 May 2011 | 39 Comments »

How appropriate that The Annotated Sense and Sensibility is being published during the bicentenary year of Jane Austen’s first published novel. This new book includes the complete text of Jane Austen’s classic with annotations by Dr. David M. Shapard, an expert in eighteenth-century European History who also brought us similar annotated editions of Pride and [...]

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The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries, by Emma Thompson – A Review

Posted in Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Adaptations, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Sense & Sensibility Movies, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011 on 27 April 2011 | 47 Comments »

Nominated for seven Academy Awards®, the 1995 movie Sense and Sensibility remains one of my most cherished interpretations of a Jane Austen novel. Everything about this film project seems to be touched with gold; from the award winning screenplay by actress Emma Thompson; to the incredible depth of British acting talent: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, [...]

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