Her Fantasy: A Review of the Movie “Austenland”
What is it about men who wear breeches, billowy white shirts, velvet waistcoats, and top hats? Is it the knee-high boots that make the ensemble or the way they tip their hat as a woman…
Tag: Classic Literature
An Introduction: A Pride and Prejudice Story
By: Nadia C. Shoshana Word Count: 5068 Rating: G Summary: A mass Jane Austen crossover story. Ballrooms are known to bring the greatest of pleasures or disappointments and certainly the highest expectations from many different quarters…
Jane Austen and Me: A Reader’s Sojourn in the World of Classic Regency Romance
Pride and Prejudice was the first period drama novel I had ever read. It was on the summer reading list for my high school (I usually read every book on the list each year, though…
A Confession: A Scarlet Pimpernel Story
By Lady Blakh Word Count: 992 Rating: PG Summary: The Scarlet Pimpernel writes a letter. Dear friend! I hope that this letter finds you well. When it comes to myself, it seems to me that…
Free At Last: A Scarlet Pimpernel Story
By LadyBlakh Word Count: 3086 Rating: PG-13 Summary: Percy and Marguerite collect themselves after escaping France. The door creaked as Percy slowly pushed it open to reveal the small, squalid room where he and Marguerite…
"Tintern Abbey" and Raskolvnikov: Memory's Contrasting Consequences
William Wordsworth’s poem, “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment, exhibit the two extreme effects that memory can have on the mind and the heart.…
Soldier’s Heart: A Sense and Sensibility Story
He was always the quiet one, watching, waiting, it seemed, for something. He was lonely, people said, brooding over past hurts, keeping to himself lest others saw his wounds, going out alone into the wild…
Pride and Prejudice Movies: Colin Firth’s (1995) vs Keira Knightly’s (2005)
When I was in high school, I picked up the book Pride and Prejudice for the first time and loved it. Now I've always preferred books over movies, hands down, but when I heard the…
An Enemy's Farewell: A Scarlet Pimpernel Story
Chauvelin started and rose from his chair when he heard the key turn in the lock, and he realised that it was time. He was to be taken to the guillotine like a common traitor,…
Something More: Fantasy Fiction as a Reflection of Truth
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity How many of us, on a…