Andrew Davies is pretty pleased with life. As the country’s most fêted TV screenwriter of epic classic adaptations, he has much to be pleased about, but right now his blue eyes are twinkling particularly strongly. First (but probably not foremost) is...
Read moreNext week BBC2 will launch a major new drama series based on the Booker Prize-winning historical novels of Hilary Mantel. Wolf Hall will tell the gripping story of Thomas Cromwell, a ruthless commoner who inveigles his way into the court of Henry VIII...
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Read moreThis show, which began streaming on YouTube in April 2012, is a modern retelling of Jane Austen's incredibly popular 1813 novel, "Pride and Prejudice." The main character of the series is Lizzie Bennet, a 24-year-old grad student with "an uncertain future"...
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Read moreEn écoute sur le site de France Inter. Jane Austen : extraits: 1. Sense and sensibility (1811), chapitre IX : Marianne Dashwood rencontre Willoughby 2. Northanger Abbey (posthume), chapitre II : la deception de Catherine qui assiste à son premier bal....
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Photograph: David Parry/PA source: the guardian (click to read) About the same topic, read in French : Le Figaro
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