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The theme for this week is about Jane Austen, an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the privileged British social class who lived entirely off rental income (landed gentry), earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer.
Enjoy two film trailers adapted from Austen’s most popular novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
Sense and Sensibility:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns17RQr1yK8
Pride and Prejudice:
We have begun a new round of our hit game, Charades. Our latest video is in our Teenagers & Adult’s section.
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This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of November. Check them out below.
Row 1: (L-R) Adeline Yen Mah, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Leander Kahney, Albert Camus Row 2: (L-R) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, David Nicholls Row 3: (L-R) Roger Lancelyn Green, Jonathan Swift, L. M. Montgomery, Luke Rhinehart Row 4: (L-R) George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Richelle Mead
Albert Camus
(November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960)
Camus was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.”
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Mark Twain
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881) and Tom Sawyer’s sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
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Bram Stoker
(November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912)
Stoker was an Irish author known today for his 1897 Gothic novel, Dracula.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881)
Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. The Double was made into a film in 2013.
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Luke Rhinehart
(November 15, 1932 – )
George Cockcroft, known by his pen name Luke Rhinehart, is an American writer, most notable as the author of The Dice Man series.
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Richelle Mead
(November 12, 1976 – )
Mead is a bestselling American fantasy author. She is known for the Georgina Kincaid series, Vampire Academy. It was made into a film in 2014.
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Leander Kahney
(November 25, 1965 – )
Kahney is a technology writer and author. He is a former managing editor, and previously a senior reporter, at ‘Wired News’, the online sister publication of ‘Wired’.
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Winston Churchill
(November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965)
Churchill was a British politician and Nobel laureate who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer and an artist. Churchill is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its creation in 1901, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
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Roger Lancelyn Green
(November 2, 1918 – October 8, 1987)
Green was a British biographer who became known primarily for his writings for children, particularly his retellings of the stories of King Arthur, King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, and Robin Hood, The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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Adeline Yen Mah
(November 30, 1937 – )
Mah is a Chinese-American author and physician. Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter describes her experiences growing up in China during the Second World War.
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Jonathan Swift
(November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745)
Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet and cleric who is remembered for such work as Gulliver’s Travels.
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George Eliot
(November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880)
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of several novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861) and Middlemarch (1871–72), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
(November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894)
Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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David Nicholls
(November 30, 1966 – )
Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter. His book, One Day, was turned into a film in 2011.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
(November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924)
Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-86) and The Secret Garden (1911). Both were made into films.
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L. M. Montgomery
(November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942)
Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success.
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To celebrate Francis Hodgson Burnett, we’d like to ask, which book would you read?
The Secret Garden
Author: Francis Hodgson Burnett
ISBN: 9780194791298
Though Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote more than forty books, none remains so popular as this miraculous and magical masterpiece. Has any story ever dared to begin by calling its heroine, “the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen” and, just a few sentences later, “as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived?” Mary Lennox is the “little pig,” sent to Misselthwaite Manor, on the Yorkshire moors, to live with her uncle after her parents die of cholera. There she discovers her sickly cousin Colin, who is equally obnoxious and imperious. Both love no one because they have never been loved. They are the book’s spiritual secret gardens, needing only the right kind of care to bloom into lovely children.
Mary also discovers a literal secret garden, hidden behind a locked gate on her uncle’s estate, neglected for the ten years since Colin’s birth and his mother’s death. Together with a local child named Dickon, Mary and Colin transform the garden into a paradise bursting with life and color. Through their newfound mutual love of nature, they nurture each other, until they are brought back to health and happiness.
Price: 8,5 GEL
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
ISBN: 9780194789295
At the age of sixteen Frances Hodgson Burnett moved to Tennessee with her bankrupt family and began writing for American magazines as means to support herself. Over two decades later Burnett published Little Lord Fauntleroy, modeling the character after her son, Vivian. Burnett’s text and Reginald Birch’s original illustrations helped popularize a very romantic style of dress for boys — a velvet suit with a broad lace collar — in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
At a very early age an American boy named Cedric is told that he is the sole heir to a British earldom. So, he leaves New York to take up residence in his ancestral castle, where, after some initial resistance, he is joined by his middle-class mother, ”Dearest”, the widow of the late heir. His grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, intends to teach the boy to become an aristocrat, but Cedric inadvertently teaches his grandfather compassion and social justice, while the artless simplicity and motherly love of Dearest warms his heart.
Price: 7,5 GEL
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The theme for this week is about Frances Hodgson Burnett, who was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden.
Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden have had many film adaptations, plays and musicals made from them since publication.
Enjoy the trailer of The Secret Garden film:
And enjoy a clip from the 1936 film version of Little Lord Fauntleroy:
Dracula
Author: Bram Stocker
ISBN:9780141439846
Count Dracula has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to Bram Stoker’s original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. Dracula chronicles the vampire’s journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.
Today’s critics see Dracula as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all.
Price: 18,5 GEL
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780140620337
Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged—petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral—while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous with the years, has been horrifying, enchanting, obsessing, even corrupting readers for more than a hundred years.
Taking the reader in and out of London drawing rooms, to the heights of aestheticism, and to the depths of decadence, The Picture of Dorian Gray is not only a melodrama about moral corruption. It is also a fascinating look at the milieu of Wilde’s fin-de-siècle world and a manifesto of the creed “Art for Art’s Sake.”
The ever-quotable Wilde, who once delighted London with his scintillating plays, scandalized readers with this, his only novel. The Picture of Dorian Gray firmly established Wilde as one of the great voices of the Aesthetic movement, and endures as a classic that is as timeless as its hero.
Price: 15,9 GEL
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1. Young Adult is not a genre. We hear that often — “the YA genre.” You’re wrong. Don’t call it that. Stop it. But seriously, Young Adult is a proposed age range for those who wish to read a particular book. It is a demographic rather than an agglomeration of people who like to read stories
2. The average Young Adult novel probably hovers around the 70,000 word mark — shorter if it leans away from genre and toward literary. Particularly, for the first book in a series.
3. They also tend to be more quickly paced and with a great deal of dialogue. Some young adult books read with almost the spare elegance of a really sharp, elegant screenplay.
4. Adults are rarely the main characters of a young adult book. Why would they be? They don’t have teen problems. They’re witnesses, at best. That said, adults can be the supporting characters (though usually still peripheral to the teen world — teachers, parents, older siblings) and they can also certainly be the villains.
5. Adults read a lot of young adult fiction, particularly “cross-over” fiction that leans toward the higher end of that teen age range. One might speculate adults like it because it recaptures some part of their youth. Or that adults are frequently not as grown up as they’d prefer these days.
To celebrate Agatha Christie this week, we are asking you which book would you like to read?
The Labours of Hercules
Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN:9780007280513
In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters.
So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed ‘Labours’. Each would go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.
Price: 12,9 GEL
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Poirot: The Perfect Murders: Omnibus
Author: Agatha Christie
ISBN:9780007190645
A brand new Poirot omnibus, featuring four of the world-renowned detective’s most challenging cases: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder in the Mews and Hercule Poirot’s Christmas.
It seems Hercule Poirot can never escape murder – and in this collection, the crimes are probably the finest he has ever had to solve. Locked rooms, wealth and jealousy – outwardly all very similar, but when the detective begins to dig, the motives and solutions couldn’t be more different…
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
In the quiet village of King’s Abbot, a wealthy widower is found stabbbed to death in his study…
Murder on the Orient Express
A wealthy American dies of multiple stab wounds on a train bound for Paris…
Murder in the Mews
A widow is murdered in her apartment…
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
A sadistic old man is brutally murdered in his locked study…
Price: 12,9 GEL
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