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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Everything Sense & Sensibility

NORTHANGER ABBEY
A heroine, her ancestor, her heiress
Henry Tilney: the hero of Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey: A Feminist Novel


EMMA :
Thoughts on Emma : Mr Knightley
Thoughts on Emma: this month's heroine
BBC Emma 2009: You will not ask me my secret?
Emma : The ambiguous pleasure of liberty

MANSFIELD PARK
Mansfield Park (Comparison 1999 -2007 adaptations)

PERSUASION
Re-reading Persuasion, my favourite JA 's novel
Thoughts on Anne Elliot
Thoughts on Captain Wentworth


MINOR , UNFINISHED WORKS & JUVENILIA
The Watsons
Sanditon (Juliette Shapiro's completion)
Reading Lady Susan
Love and Freindship and Other Early Works

JANE AUSTEN'S WORLD
Being a woman at Jane Austen's time
Men at Jane Austen's time
A bit of Jane: Becoming Jane vs Jane Austen regrets
Gothic Austen
Little Austen Women : From Marianne to Catherine
Libertines, rakes and Jane Austen
Jane Austen and the Theatre

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"The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."— Italo Calvino

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Jane Austen's First Love
4 of 5 stars
Jane Austen's First Love
by Syrie James
Syrie James confirms her skills as brilliant story-teller and creator of lively pictures of Regency life. Well-researched historical novel as well as delightful summer read, her new Jane Austen’s First Love is based on an imaginative ...
tagged: austen-inspired, historical-fiction, romance e read-in2014
Giorni di spasimato amore
5 of 5 stars
Giorni di spasimato amore
by Romana Petri
Romana Petri is an exceptionally good writer and a translator from Portuguese. Her "Giorni di spasimato amore" is perfect in its moving semplicity. In wartime, Antonio meets a beautiful girl, Lucia. They bump - or better crash - into e...
tagged: italian-books, romance e read-in2014
Non so niente di te
4 of 5 stars
Non so niente di te
by Paola Mastrocola
"Non so niente di te" (I know nothing of you) is the story of Fil, Filippo. His parents are sure he is studying at Stanford University, US, instead he is in Oxford, UK, where, they hear, he was supposed to present his new project on ec...
tagged: italian-books e read-in2014
Jane Austen and Names
4 of 5 stars
Jane Austen and Names
by Maggie Lane
"They say his name is Henry. A proof of how unequally the gifts of Fortune are bestowed — I have seen many a John & Thomas much more agreeable. " (from J. Austen, Letters) What's in a name? According to William Shakespeare - or better ...
tagged: austen-inspired, non-fiction e read-in2014
The Crucible
5 of 5 stars
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
tagged: read-in2014, classics, theatre, american-literature e american-theatre
Urbino, Nebraska
3 of 5 stars
Urbino, Nebraska
by Alessio Torino
tagged: read-in2014 e italian-books
City of Heavenly Fire
4 of 5 stars
City of Heavenly Fire
by Cassandra Clare
tagged: fantasy, read-in2014, romance, supernatural e ya
Apnea
3 of 5 stars
Apnea
by Lorenzo Amurri
tagged: italian-books, autobiography, non-fiction e read-in2014
Prima che tu mi tradisca
3 of 5 stars
Prima che tu mi tradisca
by Antonella Lattanzi
tagged: italian-books e read-in2014
Come un respiro interrotto
5 of 5 stars
Come un respiro interrotto
by Fabio Stassi
"Come un respiro interrotto" is such a complex narration which makes it quite impossible to tell you thoroughly what it is about. It is a choral narration, with numerous voices and many points of view. It is the story a woman, Soledad, S...
tagged: italian-books e read-in2014
Allegiant
4 of 5 stars
Allegiant
by Veronica Roth
After reading Divergent and watching the movie, I was too curious to know what happened next, so I provided my iPad with the ebooks of the two sequels which completed the Divergent trilogy and was more than willing to take up the journe...
tagged: dystopian, read-in2014, ya e science-fiction
Insurgent
3 of 5 stars
Insurgent
by Veronica Roth
After reading Divergent and watching the movie, I was too curious to know what happened next, so I provided my iPad with the ebooks of the two sequels which completed the Divergent trilogy and was more than willing to take up the journe...
tagged: dystopian, read-in2014 e ya
The Slave
4 of 5 stars
The Slave
by Pauline Montagna
A real page turner. I was first drawn to it by the original love story the author proposes as the main feature in the plot. A young woman from a rich Italian family doomed to obey her father first, then her husband, the man his father c...
tagged: historical-fiction, read-in2014 e romance
The Fault in Our Stars
4 of 5 stars
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings". Probably John Green had this line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in his mind while trying to give his beatiful love story a proper title. But more...
tagged: modern-romance, read-in2014, ya e romance
Urban Grimshaw And The Shed Crew
4 of 5 stars
Urban Grimshaw And The Shed Crew
by Bernard Hare
Leeds in the 1990s is the setting for this story. Chop is an ex social worker who dropped his job and retreated in a world of drinking and drugs, living at the margins of society. It is in those unfortunate situation that he meets Urban ...
tagged: read-in2014, autobiography e social-themes
Divergent
4 of 5 stars
Divergent
by Veronica Roth
Just finished reading Divergent by Veronica Roth and now I'm ready to see the movie coming out on April 3 (here in Italy). What is it with these YA novels? I know I’m definitely not the intended demographic but… 1. They are fun 2. They a...
tagged: ya, dystopian, read-in2014 e romance
Gli sdraiati
4 of 5 stars
Gli sdraiati
by Michele Serra
It is a small Italian book titled "Gli sdraiati", in English something like, the lying down, or "those flat on their backs". Anyway, the mentioned book is about a father and his relationship with his teenage son. Yes, teenagers. They ...
tagged: read-in2014, italian-books e non-fiction
Shadow of Night
3 of 5 stars
Shadow of Night
by Deborah Harkness
tagged: fantasy, historical-fiction, romance, supernatural e read-in-2013
Jawbreaker - Unlock the (U)niverse
3 of 5 stars
Jawbreaker - Unlock the (U)niverse
by Jolene Stockman
Teenagers aren’t the easiest people you can find yourself dealing with. It’s the word of an expert, meaning someone with long-lasting experience not someone with an answer to any question. As a teacher to teenagers, I’m still and co...
tagged: non-fiction, read-in-2013 e ya
Happy Birthday, Mr Darcy
3 of 5 stars
Happy Birthday, Mr Darcy
by Victoria Connelly
Happy Birthday, Mr. Darcy is the fifth installment in the Austen Addicts series by Victoria Connelly. I've read and loved them all, could I miss this new one? A delightful novella set in the magnificent Purley Hall, where two of the l...
tagged: austen-inspired, modern-romance e read-in-2013

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