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Preview of Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell (Oxford World’s Classics) New Edition

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, Victorian Authors, tagged , , , , , on 4 June 2011 | 6 Comments »

We have several of Oxford World’s Classics editions in our library and are quite partial to their expanded editions. From Austen to Radcliffe to Burney to Gaskell, whatever they take on, their introductions and supplemental material are excellent. The news of this new revised paperback edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford is quite exciting. Due out [...]

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Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for September

Posted in Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 1 September 2009 | 6 Comments »

The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in September, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.   Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)  According To Jane, by Marilyn Brant  Here is a bright new face on the Austen sequel/inspiration market. [...]

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Jane Austen Selected Letters (Oxford World’s Classics) – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Letters, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 31 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.” Jane Austen, 24 December 1798  Jane Austen’s personal correspondence has stirred up controversy since her untimely death in 1817 at age 41. The next year her brother Henry Austen wrote in the ‘Biographical [...]

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Jane Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for February 2009

Posted in Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 3 February 2009 | 4 Comments »

The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in February, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.  Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)   Mr. Darcy’s Dream: A Novel. Elizabeth Aston continues with her sixth novel of the entertaining exploits of the Darcy family [...]

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The Sunday Salon: Preview of Oxford World’s Classics: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: Day 16 Giveaway

Posted in Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 26 October 2008 | 14 Comments »

Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Reflection brought only regret, and anticipation terror. How often did she wish to “steal the lark’s wing, and mount the swiftest gale,” that Languedoc and repose might [...]

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Oxford World’s Classics: Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sandition – Our Diptych Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, Jane Austen's Minor Works, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , on 22 October 2008 | 2 Comments »

“Catherine, at any rate, heard enough to feel that in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty” The Narrator, Chapter 30  Gentle readers, Please join us for the fifth in a series of six reviews of the revised editions of [...]

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Oxford World’s Classics: Emma – Our Diptych Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 23 September 2008 | 1 Comment »

“I will keep my ill-humour to myself. I have a very sincere interest in Emma . . . There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Emma. I wonder what will become of her!” Mr. Knightley, Emma, Chapter 5  Gentle readers, Please join us for the fourth in a series of six [...]

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Oxford World’s Classics: Mansfield Park – Our Diptych Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 26 August 2008 | 8 Comments »

“Me!” cried Fanny…”Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act.” Fanny Price, Chapter 15  Gentle readers, Please join us for the third in a series of six diptych reviews of the revised editions of Jane Austen’s six major novels [...]

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