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The Free Stuff Austenprose is happy to announce the 17 great days of give-aways being offered during Mansfield Park Madness. To qualify for any and all of the following prizes, please leave a comment in the corresponding post(s) for the day that the prize is announced (a real comment not just a spam-ment) between August 15-30, 2008 and your... Continue Reading →
Mansfield Park Madness at Austenprose August 15-31 Seventeen days of seventeen great give-aways and Fanny too!  Welcome Janeites and classic literature fans. I am pleased to announce that Austenprose will be hosting a seventeen day event in celebration and re-discovery of Jane Austen's most complex and often misunderstood novel Mansfield Park. Please join us on... Continue Reading →
Check out this interesting interview with Austen-esque author Maya Slater about her recently released first novel Mr. Darcy's Diary. If you think that the title seems familiar, you are quite right. It is one-in-the-same as author Amanda Grange's recent release. The difference between the two being that Slater's version has not yet been published internationally,... Continue Reading →
"And that," said Mrs. Reynolds, pointing to another of the miniatures, "is my master -- and very like him. It was drawn at the same time as the other -- about eight years ago."Â Â "I have heard much of your master's fine person," said Mrs. Gardiner, looking at the picture; "it is a handsome face.... Continue Reading →
It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want. The Narrator on Anne Elliot, Persuasion, Chapter 17Â Looking for a gift book for a special Janeite, or as an introduction of Jane... Continue Reading →
   INFORMED  Emma wants to see her better informed; it will be an inducement to her to read more herself. They will read together. She means it, I know." Mrs. Weston, Emma, Chapter 5  I hope that you all enjoyed Emma, staring Kate Beckinsale, Sunday on PBS. This movie version is my favorite... Continue Reading →
LAUGH "Oh! shocking!" cried Miss Bingley. "I never heard anything so abominable. How shall we punish him for such a speech?" "Nothing so easy, if you have but the inclination," said Elizabeth. "We can all plague and punish one another. Tease him -- laugh at him. Intimate as you are, you must know how it... Continue Reading →
FONDNESS He knew her to be clever, to have a quick apprehension as well as good sense, and a fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself. The Narrator on Edmund Bertram regarding Fanny Price, Mansfield Park, Chapter 2 As a bookseller, one of the exciting parts of my job is learning about new... Continue Reading →
