Jane Austen Basics
Beloved for almost two hundred years, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight for the afterlife of this classic novelist. New editions of her literary works are being released every year gaining new...
View ArticleBooks About Jane Austen
Jane Austen lived only forty-one years and wrote only six books. Every year new fans succumb to the charms of her heroines like Miss Bennet and Miss Dashwood; and heroes like Mr. Darcy and Mr....
View ArticleVisiting Jane Austen
You’ve read the books. You’ve read about the author. But still, you want more. If you travel to England there are three choice places that any Jane Austen fan needs to add to their list of experiences....
View ArticleForm – Short Stories
I do not want to touch too much on this literary form as we have a site at BellaOnline specifically focused for short stories. But being the literary fiction site it would be remiss of me not to...
View ArticleMajor Periods of Literary Fiction
Here is a mini list of the different periods authors are divided into according to the period within which their work was produced. It serves no other purpose than curiosity. As you can see there is...
View ArticleDitto E-book Reader
There are two things I think of when I hear the word “Ditto”, the first is the movie Ghost with Patrick Swayze responding to Demi Moore’s “I love you” with “ditto”. The second is the punk Indie...
View ArticleForm – Novella
One of my favorite forms of literary fiction is the novella. Starting at approximately 19,000 words (and running as long 40,000 words) it gives the literary fiction reader a little more meat than a...
View ArticleThe Future of Books
Magazine sales are down, newspaper sales are down, and book sales are down. Sure we all buy less in a recession and with the price of books (and magazines, sheesh) they definitely are a luxury item...
View ArticleMiami Book Fair
Its official name is the Miami Book Fair International and it is one of the biggest highlights in November (this year it runs from the 8th to the 15th) for the Miami, Florida area drawing in fine...
View ArticleThe Budget Fashionista
I have followed Kathryn Finney’s blog, The Budget Fashionista for a few years. I even recommend her book on my blog for the last year. At the end of December I applied to be a contributing fashion...
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