Forgive lack of recent posting
Real life interferes once again. In the meantime, enjoy a link from Alert Janeite David, who found a link to an iPad-ready edition of P&P. The blog post seems to have fed the description (which is fine on Amazon) though a translator and then back to English again. We were, however, especially amused by this comment:
Please, this was an utterly unconvincing and boring novel. If it wa written today it would be internationally acclaimed for being a dummed down soap opera. Unfortunately, having been composed in, what, the 1830s, it has become a period drama style romance novel, where instead of foreplay, they have to bow and curtsy and everything. Althought this may appeal to worthless romantics, it will not perform well to the MTV generation. The movie starred Hugh Grant. Please………
How many things can one A. Nonny Mouse get wrong in one blog comment? And we’re not even talking about the typos.
Enjoy, and with luck regular service will resume tonight. Feel free to take this as an open thread. Let us know what’s going on in your patch of Janeiteville.
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ha ha ha!! ROFL
“And positively what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage–tracing the intricacies (not to discuss the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with the certain palm as well as an unblinking eye.”
tracing with palms! dry, unblinking eyes!
And I’ve never considered a sentence with both “whales” and “Jane Austen” in it!
Uh, I’m pretty sure I *am* the MTV generation –it having launched on my 16th birthday– and I like Austen just fine. Besides which, when was this written? Because it’s been a loooonnnnng time since said generation was the arbiter of the hip and fashionable–and we adored Hugh Grant, so there! ;P
I liked the poster who thought Jane Austen deserved credit for having written the book in an American household in the early 1880′s! And having it published without telling her husband!
It is amazing the lack of education displayed by the posters. Jane Austen in America???? And married???
Since it’s an open thread, I will comment that I saw an article today that one of my favorite Austen adaptations, “Clueless”, turns 15 today. I still love that movie and watch it I hope not sporadically!
http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/19/clueless-was-released-15-years-ago-today-im-totally-buggin/
LOL. Clueless is still my very favorite Emma adaptation. I might go rolling with the homies to celebrate.
Also, where can I find this version of P&P that stars Hugh Grant? He was Wickham, right?
That would be Bridget Jones’s Diary!!!
I love Clueless, best Emma ever!!
Maybe, he would have preferred the Colin Firth version? or the comic book version?
It just goes to show that we must introduce our children to Jane Austen at an early age. Pitiful….
I just love what all the (automatic?) translating did for the first sentence of P&P … “a law zodiacally acknowledged” …
What a crappy website, by the way (not just by the standards of their commentators).
Tee-hee! I just contributed my mite to the blog postings! Looking forward to the reaction, if any. I bad.
Open thread question: Does anyone know where I can find scripts for stage adaptations of Jane Austen for junior high/middle school students? I know someone posted about some once, but I haven’t been able to find the information again.
A couple of years ago the Seattle Public Theatre’s youth program produced Pride and Prejudice. It was a very well done adaptation by Don Fleming. Somebody at Seattle Public Theatre may be able to give you more information about that script.
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i am currently re-watching most recent Emma . . . if i wanted modern manners, i would watch Clueless, which is v. good . . .when will anyone make a good Emma???
Strange comments. I know plenty of MTV youngsters who like JA and Hugh Grant.
Steamy Darcy
Oh my gosh! This is hilarious! This is solid proof that ignorance is not bliss. It is also solid proof that we need to bumped up our courses in English literature in the high school classrooms, as well as simple grammar.