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Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries Pride and Prejudice at 200 (and a genius YouTube interpretation)
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Pride and Prejudice at 200 (and a genius YouTube interpretation)

Helena Fairfax11 Comments

If you’re a Jane Austen fan like me (and if you’re not, I beg you to read on anyway! you’re in for a surprising and fabulous treat!), you’ll know already that Pride and Prejudice is two hundred years old this week. I first read this book when I was fifteen and it was as gripping…… Continue reading Pride and Prejudice at 200 (and a genius YouTube interpretation)

films, film adaptations, books, anna karenina Ten films that are better than the book (even though the book was brilliant)
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Ten films that are better than the book (even though the book was brilliant)

Helena Fairfax23 Comments

How many times have you been to the cinema and heard someone say afterwards,  “Yeah, it was OK.  But the book’s way better”?  Why do film adaptations disappoint so often?  Maybe because even the best of them only last a couple of hours – with the best will in the world not long enough to…… Continue reading Ten films that are better than the book (even though the book was brilliant)