Charlotte Bronte

Are Novels Better With Large Casts or Small Casts?

Dave Astor | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Edith Wharton, Donald Westlake, Barbara Kingsolver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novels, Literary Characters, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Charlotte Bronte, Books News
Dave Astor

For a book with "Solitude" in its title, it sure has lots of characters! After recently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, I've been thinking about whether novels are better with large casts or small casts.

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'Second Bananas' Who Were First-Rate Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Wilkie Collins, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Classic Novels, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Underrated Novels, Underrated Authors, Mark Twain, Books News
Dave Astor

Why do some 19th-century novelists resemble the pre-2004 Boston Red Sox or some current singers other than Adele? This post will explain!

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Lost Charlotte Brontë Short Story To Be Revealed

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: L'ingratitude, Charlotte Bronte Short Story, Teenage Charlotte Bronte, Video, Lost Bronte Short Story, Lost Charlotte Bronte Story, Bronte Story, Charlotte Bronte, Books News

A lost short story by Charlotte Brontë has come to light - and it's in French. According to The Guardian, "L'Ingratitude" was written by a teenag...

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Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination

Michael Gilmour | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Literature, Proverbs, Victorian-Novel, Biblical Interpretation, Bible, Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, Book of Proverbs, Charlotte Bronte, Bronte Sisters, Novels, Victorian Literature, Books, Religion News
Michael Gilmour

For readers interested in the intersections of theology, the Bible, and creative writing, Anne Brontë's books offer a wealth of fascinating material,

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14-Year-Old Charlotte Bronte Wrote A Record-Breaking Manuscript

AP | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Bronte Auction Record, Early Bronte Stories, Charlotte Bronte Manuscript Record, The Young Men's Magazine Number 2, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Bronte Manuscript, Culture News

LONDON — An unpublished Charlotte Bronte manuscript has sold for a record 690,850 pounds ($1.1 million) at auction, more than double the expecte...

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Giving Thanks for Putting Away Childish Literary Things

Dave Astor | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Books for Adults, Jane Eyre, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Juvenile Fiction, Charlotte Bronte, Children's Books, Books News
Dave Astor

As I write this on Thanksgiving weekend, I give thanks to the books that turn adolescent readers into adult readers. For me, it was one 19th-century novel by a woman, and one 20th-century novel by a man.

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Manuscript By Teenage Charlotte Brontë To Potentially Sell For How Much?!

AP | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Charlotte Bronte Auction, Charlotte Bronte Writings, Charlotte Bronte Books, Auctions, Charlotte Bronte Manuscript, Charlotte Bronte, Books News

LONDON -- Sotheby's says an unpublished work by the teenage Charlotte Bronte could sell for 300,000 pounds ($482,000) at an auction next month The au...

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Don't Blame These Book Problems on the Author!

Dave Astor | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Libraries, Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Bronte, Hollywood, Mary Shelley, Jane Eyre, Abridged Books, h.g. Wells, Harry Potter, Grammar Pet Peeves, Literature Pet Peeves, Book Pet Peeves, Books News
Dave Astor

So, with an affectionate nod to Peeves the Poltergeist of Harry Potter, here are a few book-related pet peeves that aren't the authors' fault.

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A Dearth of Mirth at the End of Many Great Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Unhappy Endings, Wilkie Collins, Classic Novels, The House of Mirth, George Orwell, Novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

After just finishing The House of Mirth, I'm reminded once again that many great novels don't have happy endings.

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The Pleasures of Rereading

Dave Astor | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, John Steinbeck, Baseball, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zora Neale Hurston, Rereading Books, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, Rereading Novels, Alfred Payson Terhune, Alexandre Dumas, J.R.R. Tolkien, Marseille, Morality, Harry Potter, Mark Twain, Nostalgia, Dogs, Books News
Dave Astor

Reading a beloved book twice, thrice, or more is a craving that can't be denied. It's pleasurable, comforting, and relaxing -- partly because you don't have to figure out what the author is doing from scratch.

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Famous Last Words: Writers' Final Words Before Death

Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Writers Last Words, Virgina Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Books News, Jane Austen, Authors Last Words, Franz Kafka, Charlotte Bronte, Famous Last Words, Mark Twain, Last Words, Thomas Hobbes, Books News

A writer's life revolves around always knowing what to say and how to say it. But in the face of death, you'd think fear, pain and pressure would trum...

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The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History

Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Bronte, William Thackeray, Classic Novels, Emily Bronte, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Theodore Dreiser, Herman Melville, Honore De Balzac, Charlotte Bronte, Five Year Plan, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Great Authors, Alexandre Dumas, Willa Cather, Thornton Wilder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!

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Less Famous Literary Masterpieces

Dave Astor | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Canada, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, Toni Morrison, Erich Maria Remarque, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Harry Potter, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

There are plenty of cases where an author's masterpiece deserves the top billing it gets in the author's canon. But then there are the cases where a writer's most famous book is not the writer's best book.

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They Wrote Gothic Romances And Science Fiction Too

The Independent | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Ann Bronte, Emily Bronte, Bronte British Library, Branwell Bronte, Bronte Family, Charlotte Bronte, Bronte Science Fiction, Bronte Sisters, Books News

They might be known for their gothic romances, but the Brontë sisters also created some of the earliest examples of science fiction. When Charlotte, ...

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Charlotte Brontë's Teenage "Catalogue of Books"

Carolyn Vega | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Bronte Sisters, Letters, Charlotte Bronte Papers, Jane Eyre, Robert Southey, Charlotte Bronte, New York News
Carolyn Vega

Charlotte Brontë was barely a teenager when she began writing in earnest -- at her own count she had written over 20 complete works by the time she was 14.

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PHOTOS: History’s Most Distinguished Literary Hair

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley Hair, New York Public Library, Charlotte Bronte, William Makepeacce Thackeray, Walt Whitman, Mary Shelley, Nypl Centennial Exhibition, Books News

In preparation for Celebrating 100 Years, the New York Public Library’s centennial exhibition, the curators at the library came upon some unexpected...

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Finally, the Real Jane Eyre Stands Up

Stephanie Green | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre Review, Mia Wasikowska, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Orson Welles, Rochester, Charlotte Bronte, Books News
Stephanie Green

As a stridently confident Bronte fan, I can say without equivocation that our dear friend Charlotte would be most pleased with the new Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska.

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Based Upon the Book: An Interview with Charlotte Brontë

Nava Atlas | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Authors, Charlotte Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Writing, Pride and Prejudice, Books News
Nava Atlas

As anticipation builds around the wide release of the latest Jane Eyre film adaptation, it seems only fair that Charlotte Brontë, author of the beloved novel, gets her say.

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Charlotte Bronte vs. Jane Austen: Are You A Janeite Or A Charlottan?

The Washington Post | Monica Hesse, Thursday, March 17, 12:56 PM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jane Eyre Movie, Austen, Jane Eyre, Jane Austen, Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Bronte, Books News

Enough with the empire waistlines, the sparkly dialogue, the pride, the prejudice, the Colin Firth trudging out of the lake again and again on the lat...

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HuffPost Interview: Director Cary Fukunaga of Jane Eyre

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

It seems like a long way from the slums of Mexico City to the moors of 19th-century England but, for director Cary Fukunaga, it's not that great a stretch.

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CultureZohn: Jane Eyre, a Heroine for the Ages

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre Movie, Jane Eyre Adaptation, Jane Eyre 2011, Mia Wasikowska, Book Adaptations, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2011-03-10-outsitebox.jpgAnother film version is an occasion for celebration, an excellent reminder during Women's History Month that certain historical heroines deliver the goods to us as much any modern girls.

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Meatless Monday: Nava Atlas on What to Cook and How to Be

Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life, Charlotte Bronte, Nava Atlas, Jane Austen, Meatless Monday, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Clearly, providing easy to make, awesome to eat meatless dishes hasn't been enough. Now Atlas is taking the agitprop approach with her art.

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Bad Girls In Literature: Craziest, Most Evil Female Characters (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wicked Witch of the West, East of Eden, Jane Eyre, John Steinbeck, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Slidepollajax, Shakespeare, c.s. Lewis, Charlotte Bronte, The Manchurian Candidate, Snow Queen, Books News

Be it hormones or just a wicked streak, there are plenty of evil, crazy women scattered throughout literature. This week, we asked you for the most e...

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But Jane Austen Never Had to Worry About Her Pores

Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Publishing, Reading Groups, Jane Austen, Writing, Books, Skype, Book Clubs, Charlotte Bronte, Books News
Melanie Benjamin

One of the great pleasures of being an author today is speaking with book clubs. However, there is a sinister element at work now, threatening to take away the joy that is the book club phone call. And that sinister element is known as "Skype."

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'Pride And Prejudice And Zombies' Spin-Offs Are Out Of Control! 11 Classic Monster Mashups (PHOTOS, VIDEO, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was published in January 2009, and since then, it's set off a literary monster mash-up craze. The book, which paired...

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