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The 25-year-old blonde - who plays rebellious Lady Rose in the hit ITV period drama - would star as heroine Natasha Rostova, the part taken by Audrey Hepburn in the 1956 film version of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan , Vol. 83, No. 8. , 083702, doi:10.7566/jpsj.83.083702 To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.

Democratic revolutions have accompanied the rise of a middle class. African brands are going global, along with fashion, art, literature and films.

Erotic charm ... Frances O'Connor and Jonny Lee Miller in the film version of Jane Austen's least-loved novel.

Picture a high school civics teacher with a great love for Ken Burns and access to people like Prince Charles and the Dalai Lama - but no ability to ask them interesting questions - making his first documentary on a laptop's built-in software.

In an interview published in part in the Argentine weekly "Viva" July 27, the pope listed his Top 10 tips for bringing greater joy to one's life: 1. "Live and let live."

More than half of young adult fiction readers are adults over the age of the 18. Why do so many grownups like YA? Click through the gallery to see some of the titles that inspire older readers.

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What's the difference between you and a rat? The list is unsurprisingly long but now, we can cross a universal human experience - feelings of regret - off of it.

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A trip to a hunting preserve on the legendary King Ranch in Texas may evoke lots of adjectives.

With all the book news that's been flying about lately, we've fallen way behind on our obituary notices.

A new essay about Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre is available through AV Akademikerverlag : Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea : A Postcolonial Re-writing of Charlotte BrontA«'s Jane Eyre Jessica Diebowski Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag ISBN-13: 978-3639627916 Without doubt, the Victorian classic Jane Eyre has generated a number of intertexual ... (more)

'I want to tell people about normal law-abiding Muslims like me who have integrated well into Western society but at the same time have a faith they love.

For many writers, the migrant's journey is a storytellers' dream. The transition from one part of the world to another is filled with anticipation, conflict and inherent literary drama.

Book Buzz: George R.R. Martin to focus on the books The author said that he won't write a season five 'Game of Thrones' episode.

As we begin to commemorate the outbreak of World War I in earnest, just how central the "Great" war is to Britain's conception of its history is ever more obvious.

You could probably count on one hand the number of novels that have taken up great platonic male-female friendships as their theme.

The armies of soft philistinism are on the march and eager to ditch traditional literature instruction in favor of more utilitarian approaches.

Teens are discriminating readers with a lot of demands on their time, so what can you do to ensure that your novel is the one they'll all be dying to read? And does your book stand a chance at getting you an agent if it doesn't have wizards, vampires, or a dystopian setting? Literary agent Carlie Webber will share her ideas on what all agents want ... (more)