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Staph

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3. Anything Jane Austen
Sat Dec 12, 2015, 11:12 AM
Dec 2015

It's only six books!

Her books are small slices of life, and though they take place in rural England in the early nineteenth century, the characters are people that we know today. That's only one of the reasons that her stories are filmed over and over - not just as originally written, but remade in different locations and time periods, like Clueless (a contemporary telling of Emma in 1990s southern California), and Bride and Prejudice (2006) and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) - both based on Pride and Prejudice but based in modern India and a alternative nineteenth century England with a zombie apocalypse respectively.


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Anything Jane Austen Staph Dec 2015 #3
Huckleberry Finn! lastlib Dec 2015 #4
+1 getting old in mke Dec 2015 #7
War and Peace pscot Dec 2015 #5
Uncle Tom's Cabin. SheilaT Dec 2015 #6
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Silas Marner. SheilaT Jan 2016 #11
thanks Sheila. I agree - can honestly say I never read a single Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2016 #12
I'm sure it's almost purely psychological. SheilaT Feb 2016 #13
Thanks ! Putting UTC on my list. My first book that opened Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2016 #14
Nice. SheilaT Feb 2016 #15
There are too many books. Just go to Barnes and Noble. It must be Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2016 #16
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