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Albert, a 40 year-old orangutan who lives at the Gdansk Zoo in Poland, has got quite the taste for classic lit. He /won’t get to sleep at night unless zookeeper Michael Krause reads up to 50 pages of novels like Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Before trying reading to them, the keepers tried giving […]

Crime fiction novelist Val McDermid is looking to re-write the classic Jane Austen novel Northanger Abbey as part of a new series from HarperFiction. The updated edition of the novel is planned for Spring 2014. Other Jane Austen novels being re-written include Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope and Pride & Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld.

In the “Say it ain’t so!” department, erotica publishers are now looking to literary classics such as Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte as their next cash cows, in light of the wave of success of the Fifty Shades series. Total E-Bound is 100% convinced that there is a market […]

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English author of romantic fiction, best known for classics including Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Her works are full of social commentary that made her historically significant and kept her name alive almost two hundred years after her death. Not much is known about Jane as a person; […]

The popularity of eReaders has been growing non-stop. As of now there are There are 17,784 Kindle users. One of the things Amazon can do through their Kindle eReader is track the passages you highlight as you read.