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At the heart of the BBC’s new series Miss Austen is a fictional Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes). Reviews have stressed that the real life Cassandra’s destruction of her sister Jane Austen’s letters has been considered one of the greatest acts of literary vandalism in history. These letters would…

Letters: In response to an article about a CIA operation, Carl Gardner on tense days travelling to Prague, and David Parker on his father posting letters inserted into the Guardian

Classic Italian novel “The Leopard” has been transformed into a sumptuous period piece by Netflix

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Exercises in redrawing the contours of the ‘public sphere’, to borrow from German theorist Jurgen Habermas, come with as many possibilities as with risks. This is more often the case when the frames are historical and the gaze is directed at examining the public sphere of an era through a…

Dominic Hoffman narrates this satirical, Booker-nominated reworking of the children’s classic, written from the perspective of the enslaved Jim

The Ukrainian author on the joys of Jack London, cracking Hermann Hesse, and the soldier’s tale he can no longer reread

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a great book can change your life, but finding the right one isn’t always easy. The post 61 People Use One Quote To Convince You To Read Their Favorite Books first appeared on Bored Panda.

This 1980s-set debut novel takes place over 24 hours as the ripple effects of a teacher’s death are explored