So far, obviously, so good. But then there is a problem: Kearns’ script. It is not so much that Kearns lacks a playwright’s craft; it’s that Persuasion is, to its bones, a novel and not a play. As ...
Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.
Jane Austen wrote just six novels in her short life. Yet, 250 years after her birth, her work continues to impact literature and pop culture around the world. Each of her novels — “Sense and ...
In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books also kept her name a secret ...
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