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Posts Tagged ‘Jane Eyre’

You know what the classics need? Explosive sex.

You know what the classics need? Explosive sex.

Poor Jane Austen.
First there were the zombies. Now, reports the UK Huffington post, an adult publisher has been inspired by 50 Shades of Grey and plans to add “explosive sex” to the classics:
Some original fans of Jane Eyre might be unhappy to discover that the female protagonist has “explosive sex with Mr [...]

Texts from famous authors (and characters)

Texts from famous authors (and characters)

I get a childish delight out of anachronistic mashups, so the Paris Review’s
drunk texts from Gertrude Stein, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, and more are right in my wheelhouse:
Read the full set on the Paris Review’s site.
Meanwhile, on The Hairpin, Mallory Ortberg imagines texts from Jane Eyre–the character:
JANE WHERE HAVE YOU GONE
I AM BEREFT AND WITHOUT [...]

Taking Care of the Reader: An Interview with Margot Livesey

Taking Care of the Reader: An Interview with Margot Livesey

In her seventh novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy, Margot Livesey updates Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre so smoothly and skillfully that you’d barely even notice.