Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)

MOVIES TURN THE SPOTLIGHT ON THE RICHES AVAILABLE IN ALL OF JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS.(What's Happening)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: September 6, 1996 | Copyright information

The Jane Austen phenomenon is into its third year and I see no letup. Look in any direction and you find someone reading ``Emma'' or ``Persuasion,'' or ``Sense and Sensibility'' in one of two forms - the novel itself, or Emma Thompson's smartly published screenplay.

Movies, of course, have been vital if not indispensable to the Austen resurgence. And that's a wonder, for the very best part of Austen - the author's wise and witty observations - cannot be filmed or easily reconstructed as dialogue.

Yet the screen success of ``Sense and Sensibility,'' ``Persuasion'' and ...

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