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Historical Fictions: Stranger than Truth?

Evan Gottlieb | Posted 04.30.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Sir Walter Scott, Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Shakespeare, Lincoln Movie, Entertainment News
Evan Gottlieb

This awards season, several movies that contended for Best Picture prizes came in for an unusual degree of scrutiny regarding their historical accuracy -- or lack of it. But playing fast and loose with history is nothing new.

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Book Titles That May Not Be Ideal

Dave Astor | Posted 09.25.2012 | Books
Read More: Ivanhoe, L. Frank Baum, Sir Walter Scott, Novels, Alexandre Dumas, Margaret Atwood, Rob Roy, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Oryx and Crake, The Three Musketeers, The Wonderful World of Oz, Ruben Bolling, Odd Book Titles, Book Titles, Books News
Dave Astor

If you can't judge a book by its cover, can you judge a book by its title? I ask that because there are some novels with a title character who is not the most prominent or interesting person in the book.

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Is It Best to Buy or Borrow Books?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.28.2011 | Books
Read More: J.K. Rowling, Greed, Barbara Kingsolver, Libraries, E-Books, Eco-Friendly, Right Wing, Bookstores, Library Books, Government Services, Erich Maria Remarque, Sir Walter Scott, Corporate Greed, Independent Bookstores, Privatization, Buying Books, Harry Potter, Pay-Per-View, Jack London, Books News
Dave Astor

Now stepping into the ring: buying books vs. using a library! That bout might never make pay-per-view, but it's a contest often on the minds of avid readers.

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Anonymous Scott

Carolyn Vega | Posted 11.15.2011 | New York
Read More: Manuscripts, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott Letters, Ivanhoe Morgan Library, Morgan Library, Scott Letters, The Morgan Library & Museum, Scott Letters Morgan Library, New York News
Carolyn Vega

Recently, I read Scott's letters to the Marchioness of Abercorn. Their correspondence began in 1806 (with a letter, incidentally, that contains the earliest surviving reference to his work on The Lady of the Lake), and for a number of years they wrote each other frequently.

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Who Says Jane Austen Was a Popular Novelist?

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Books News, Jodi Picoult, Jane Austen, Books, Sir Walter Scott, New York Times, Charles Dickens, Book Sales, Shakespeare, London, Poetry, Lord Byron, Books News
Lev Raphael

Given Jane Austen's ubiquity, and the fact that anything with her name on it will sell, you might think she's always been a sensation. But you'd be wrong.

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