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Originally Posted by HarryT
"The Austen Project" is setting out to rewrite Jane Austen's six classic novels for a modern readership. Each of her novels is being tackled by a different author; the first, which has just been published, is a rewrite of "Sense and Sensibility" by Joanna Trollope, with the next being "Northanger Abbey" which is being adapted by Val McDermid.
For more information, see http://theaustenproject.com/ |
That's pitiful - a further example of catering to the lowest common denominator of the reading public.
See Mr. Bennett.
See Mr. Bennett read a book.
Mr. Bennett is in his library.
Mr. Bennett has many daughters.
It is very noisy in Mr. Bennett's house.
But it is quiet in the library.
I guess I must have been a child prodigy because I read Austen when I was about 14 and actually understood what I read, in the style it was written.
