My classic literature horizon expansion campaign enters a new phase.
My classic literature horizon expansion campaign enters a new phase. After reading time and again that Patrick O’Brian is “the Jane Austen of the sea,” I figured I better just read some Jane Austen. Due to the whims of the library hold system, first up is Sense & Sensibility. Which I already like because of alliteration and ampersands.
It's very much like Dungeons & Dragons.
ReplyDeleteI believe you can D&D anything, so I look forward to it!
ReplyDeleteI'd read a book called Alliteration and Ampersands.
ReplyDeletewould make a good thesis for a linguistics student.
ReplyDeleteIf you like S&S, just wait until you get to P&P.
ReplyDelete60 people have it on hold in front of me. I'll have to wait in suspense.
ReplyDeleteHow about this: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=jane+austin
ReplyDeleteThe audiobook, Rob. But that's a good link.
ReplyDeleteI just tried some websites that will read aloud whatever text you paste in and they're really awful. So, not a solution. :)
ReplyDeleteHow about https://librivox.org/sense-and-sensibility-version-03-by-jane-austen/
ReplyDeleteI like the books about the same. P&P just looks and sounds more like D&D.
ReplyDeleteWe saw S&S lat year and Emma last month at Theatre in the Round.
ReplyDeletePride & Prejudice and Zombies ??
ReplyDeleteMaybe after the original.
ReplyDeletegutenberg.org - Books by Austen, Jane (sorted by popularity)
ReplyDeleteI also love comparing Northanger Abbey (a parody of the Gothic novel) with Mansfield Park (kind of a hammerblow getting into Fanny's head after reading P&P and its super-snarky protagonist.) Austen has literary range.
ReplyDeleteThe Lizzie Bennett diaries (P&P adapted as a modern vlog): The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - The Complete Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_ePOdU-b3xcDyyzeR5NjxeLEElsqYzn1
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThey also did an Emma series. I like the modernized series because they help contextualize some things. But Austen's language is often snarky in a very modern (if overtly polite) way.
ReplyDeleteI've heard the Patrick O'Brian books described as Hornblower meets Austen, soooo.
O'Brian has many many dinner parties with cutting remarks.
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