New Delhi: A 40-year-old Polish orangutan has a strange obsession. He cannot go to bed unless he's read 50 pages of writer Jane Austen's masterpiece 'Pride And Prejudice'.
The Daily Mail reported quoting the newspaper Daily Star that Albert, the 200-pound orangutan at the Gdansk Zoo in Poland has to be read Elizabeth Bennet's travails with Mr Darcy every night or he won't sleep.
His keeper Michael Krause was quoted as saying "I didn't know what to do until I pulled out a book I was reading during a break and within a couple of minutes they were trying to read over my shoulder."
Krause tried everything with Albert and his partner Raya to settle them down for the night. But neither play nor fruit snacks would do....
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12:40 PM, Nov 29, 2012
London: Beloved classics like Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' are getting a steamy makeover following the success of EL James' erotic novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. An enterprising publisher has decided to release a raunchy remix of the classics under 'Clandestine Classics' collection where the old texts have been twisted to include more racy scenes. The publisher is free to adapt the classics as the...
07:02 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New York: PD James could hold back no longer. The 91-year-old detective novelist said on Wednesday she was glad to finally complete a long-desired project - a sequel to Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.' James' "Death Comes to Pemberley" will be published by Faber & Faber in Britain in early November and by Alfred A. Knopf in the United states on December 6. James said in a telephone interview from...
02:08 PM, Oct 13, 2011
V S Naipaul sparked off another row by claiming that there has been no woman writer whom he considers his equal. What's your reaction to the statement made by Naipaul?
06:05 PM, Jun 18, 2011
London: After ending the famous 15-year feud with American writer Paul Theroux at the Hay Festival this week, Nobel laureate V S Naipaul has sparked off another row by claiming that there has been no woman writer whom he considers his equal. Often described as the 'greatest living writer of English prose', Naipaul made the comments at the Royal Geographic Society on Wednesday, prompting angry responses from literary critics, writers...
07:05 PM, Jun 02, 2011
London: The only major Jane Austen manuscript still in private hands comes up for auction on July 14th, auction house Sotheby's said on Monday. "The Watsons" by the prolific author of "Sense and Sensibility" is estimated by Sotheby's at 200,000-300,000 pounds ($ 323,800-$ 485,700). "Probably written in 1804, this heavily corrected draft represents the earliest surviving manuscript for a novel by Jane Austen," Sotheby's said in a statement. "The work,...
12:59 PM, May 24, 2011
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Excerpts from Jane Austen's...
08:36 PM, Feb 10, 2011
London: Literary classics by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen are enjoying a revival, thanks to ebook gadgets like the Amazon's Kindle. Kindles were the biggest selling products this Christmas, Amazon affirmed, as Britain finally embraced the ebook revolution. Owners of ebook gadgets like the Kindle and the Apple iPad can snap up the works of many dead literary greats without paying a penny because they are out of copyright, reports...
02:09 PM, Dec 27, 2010
If you thought the Abhay-Sonam starrer is all urban, think again. The plot of the film dates back to the 19th century romance penned by Jane Austen. Here’s an extract…
Volume I – Chapter 1 Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very...
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