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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-w7hepYQJdJ8\/UuB_V0RZ4UI\/AAAAAAAAN8s\/WwQXfXGKSOA\/s1600\/jennerally-bookpile.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Classic all-time fiction bestsellers for writers\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-w7hepYQJdJ8\/UuB_V0RZ4UI\/AAAAAAAAN8s\/WwQXfXGKSOA\/s1600\/jennerally-bookpile.jpg\" height=\"300\" title=\"Classic all-time fiction bestsellers for writers\" width=\"400\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E(photocredit: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jennerally\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJennerally\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThat's why we've been updating them for you with new covers and decent descriptions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis all started as a program to enable writers to learn from the classics and so improve their own craft. However, it's popular support has broadened the scope to include the top 100 (or so) all-time popular classic fiction (and a few \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-fiction\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Non-fiction\"\u003Enon-fiction\u003C\/a\u003E) to enable any \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Writer\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Writer\"\u003Ewriter\u003C\/a\u003E (or reader) to study from history's greatest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWhat we found is that these \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Book\"\u003Ebooks\u003C\/a\u003E - now in the public domain - have been given short shrift, with boring covers, cheap-quality printing, and poor (also boring) descriptions that don't communicate the excitement the millions of readers have shared over the years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnd the ebook versions are mostly some sort of machine-code scene, with no table of contents and sometimes other horrible errors. Sure, they're free - but \"you get what you pay for\" has never been truer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSo I started this campaign with a couple dozen books, just to see how they do - and now have committed to doing a full release for over 100 books. This will mean they get proper reviews, their own page on a respectful website, and ways you can find any version of these classics that you want - hardback or digital - all with some care to the reader, and respect for the original author and his works.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI just wanted to drop you a note to say I'm working on this. Eventually, they'll all wind up in a catalog that you can download (for free) and so have access to all these versions. The great part is that they don't have to cost an incredible amount to get the best quality possible.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThe point is to give writers and readers, as well as the books and their authors, all possible respect. While this may take a good part of the upcoming year to create, it will be a labor of love - and so should go more quickly than someone getting paid to do this.\u0026nbsp; (Of course, these will have small prices on them, which will pay my bills while I re-publish these.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThanks again for your support...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch4 class=\"zemanta-related-title\"\u003E\nRelated articles\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writing-bestseller-fiction-books.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523405_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writing-bestseller-fiction-books.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELearning to write by studying bestseller fiction books. Novel? No - classics.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/h-g-wells-time-machine-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192136427_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/h-g-wells-time-machine-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EH. G. Well's Time Machine - classic fiction\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523390_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA year's worth of Classic Fiction to Study - and Entertain...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; 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text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pK5350rOB50?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mQ8ep3gLqCU\/UfLuZjxYOmI\/AAAAAAAAJJM\/JpfO47eLGvM\/s1600\/SM-war-and-peace02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - classic fiction\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mQ8ep3gLqCU\/UfLuZjxYOmI\/AAAAAAAAJJM\/JpfO47eLGvM\/s400\/SM-war-and-peace02.jpg\" title=\"Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - classic fiction\" width=\"270\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout this book:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_and_Peace\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"War and Peace\"\u003EWar and Peace\u003C\/a\u003E is a\nnovel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The\nwork is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important\nworks of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary\nachievement, along with his other major prose work \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anna-Karenina-Barnes-Noble-Classics\/dp\/1593081774%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dworstelldesig-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1593081774\" rel=\"amazon\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Anna Karenina (Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Classics)\"\u003EAnna Karenina\u003C\/a\u003E\n(1873–1877).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nTolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of\nWar and Peace that it was \"not a novel, even less is it a poem,\nand still less a historical chronicle\". Large sections of the\nwork, especially in the later chapters, are philosophical discussion\nrather than narrative. He went on to elaborate that the best \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_literature\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Russian literature\"\u003ERussian\nliterature\u003C\/a\u003E does not conform to standard norms and hence hesitated to\ncall War and Peace a novel. (Instead, Tolstoy regarded Anna Karenina\nas his first true novel.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThe novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg,\nat a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer—the maid of honour and\nconfidante to the queen mother Maria Feodorovna. Many of the main\ncharacters and aristocratic families in the novel are introduced as\nthey enter Anna Pavlovna's salon. Pierre (Pyotr Kirilovich) Bezukhov\nis the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, an elderly man who is\ndying after a series of strokes. Pierre is about to become embroiled\nin a struggle for his inheritance. Educated abroad at his father's\nexpense following his mother's death, Pierre is essentially\nkindhearted, but socially awkward, and owing in part to his open,\nbenevolent nature, finds it difficult to integrate into Petersburg\nsociety. It is known to everyone at the soirée that Pierre is his\nfather's favorite of all the old count’s illegitimate children.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nAlso attending the soireé is Pierre's friend, the\nintelligent and sardonic \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrei_Nikolayevich_Bolkonsky\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky\"\u003EPrince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky\u003C\/a\u003E,\nhusband of Lise, the charming society favourite. Finding Petersburg\nsociety unctuous and disillusioned with married life after\ndiscovering his wife is empty and superficial, Prince Andrei makes\nthe fateful choice to be an aide-de-camp to Prince Mikhail\nIlarionovich Kutuzov in the coming war against Napoleon.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThe plot moves to Moscow, Russia's ancient city\nand former capital, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to\nthe highly mannered society of Petersburg. The Rostov family are\nintroduced. Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov has four adolescent\nchildren. Thirteen-year-old Natasha (Natalia Ilyinichna) believes\nherself in love with Boris Drubetskoy, a disciplined young man who is\nabout to join the army as an officer. Twenty-year-old Nikolai Ilyich\npledges his love to Sonya (Sofia Alexandrovna), his fifteen-year-old\ncousin, an orphan who has been brought up by the Rostovs. The eldest\nchild of the Rostov family, Vera Ilyinichna, is cold and somewhat\nhaughty but has a good prospective marriage in a Russian-German\nofficer, Adolf Karlovich Berg. Petya (Pyotr Ilyich) is nine and the\nyoungest of the Rostov family; like his brother, he is impetuous and\neager to join the army when of age. The heads of the family, Count\nIlya Rostov and Countess Natalya Rostova, are an affectionate couple\nbut forever worried about their disordered finances.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nAt Bald Hills, the Bolkonskys' country estate,\nPrince Andrei departs for war and leaves his terrified, pregnant wife\nLise with his eccentric father Prince Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky\nand devoutly religious sister Maria Nikolayevna\nBolkonskaya...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch4\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the author:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Tolstoy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Leo Tolstoy\"\u003ECount Lev Nikolayevich\nTolstoy\u003C\/a\u003E (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7\nNovember] 1910), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who\nprimarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also\nwrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated\nand paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic\nviews, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening\nin the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and\nsocial reformer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nHis literal interpretation of the ethical\nteachings of Jesus, centering on the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sermon_on_the_Mount\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sermon on the Mount\"\u003ESermon on the Mount\u003C\/a\u003E, caused him\nin later life to become a fervent \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_anarchism\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Christian anarchism\"\u003EChristian anarchist\u003C\/a\u003E and\nanarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in\nsuch works as \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kingdom-God-Within-You\/dp\/1602067465%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dworstelldesig-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1602067465\" rel=\"amazon\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Kingdom of God is Within You\"\u003EThe Kingdom of God Is Within You\u003C\/a\u003E, were to have a\nprofound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi\"\u003EMohandas\nGandhi\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King%2C_Jr.\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Martin Luther King, Jr.\"\u003EMartin Luther King, Jr.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers'\nClub: \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\nThis was created by\npopular request to enable any beginning or established author to\nimprove their skills by studying quality editions of classic\nbestselling fiction. Join at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch4 class=\"zemanta-related-title\"\u003E\nRelated articles\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523394_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe first year's fiction bestsellers study list is released!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournal.worstelldesign.com\/2013\/07\/classic-fiction-bestsellers-online.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188411349_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournal.worstelldesign.com\/2013\/07\/classic-fiction-bestsellers-online.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhy study classic fiction? To improve your real-world results.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523390_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA year's worth of Classic Fiction to Study - and Entertain...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/sun-tzus-art-of-war-classic-non-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/noimg_40_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/sun-tzus-art-of-war-classic-non-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ESun Tzu's Art of War - classic non-fiction study\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058197_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen's Persuasion - another classic fiction bestseller\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ruvr.co.uk\/2013_06_20\/Tolstoy-archives-online-Fyokla\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/178870893_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ruvr.co.uk\/2013_06_20\/Tolstoy-archives-online-Fyokla\/\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EComplete Tolstoy archives to be put online\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=a0b3a847-39e3-4a46-aa4c-41f3ee5ef2c1\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Sites\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/artworks.arts.gov\/?p=17424\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EArt Talk with NEA Literature Translation Fellow George O'Connell ...\u003C\/a\u003E - As long as I'm including by omission, let's also leave out the King James Bible, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the treasure-house of Proust. Of course this is to say nothing of the great Chinese and Japanese classical poets,\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/qwiklit.com\/2013\/05\/14\/20-great-russian-novels-you-should-read-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E20 Great Russian Novels You Should Read Right Now | Qwiklit\u003C\/a\u003E - Lev Tolstoy - War and Peace (1863-1869). The Great White Whale of Russian literature, War and Peace is a 1,300 page work that includes hundreds of subplots and characters all intertwining during the failed Napoleonic\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/jaltranslation.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/26\/a-look-at-l3-from-tolstoy-to-trays\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA look at L3 from Tolstoy to trays. - jaltranslation\u003C\/a\u003E - is that of Tolstoy's War and Peace - a literary buff's favourite - commenting upon the use of French in the Russian original. It is estimated that 2 percent of the entire book is in French, and it is used in order to reflect the\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.williams.edu\/feature-stories\/winter-study-reading-for-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWinter Study: Reading for Life | Williams College\u003C\/a\u003E - So when the opportunity presented itself to read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace-all 1,296 pages of it-during Winter Study in January, Yniguez jumped at the chance. She and 14 other students are taking part in the class \"War and Peace,\" led\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ttahko.net\/2012\/book-review-leo-tolstoys-war-and-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ETTahko.net | Book Review: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace\u003C\/a\u003E - Before I get started, I should note that book reviews - at least when it comes to fiction - have not featured and probably will not feature prominently on this blog. However, I've noticed that the blog's 'Literature' category\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogs.libraries.iub.edu\/metadata\/2013\/06\/04\/viaf-news\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EVIAF News | Metadata Discussion Group - IUB Libraries Blogs\u003C\/a\u003E - OCLC colleagues Smith-Yoshimura and Janifer Gatenby collaborate to illustrate how uniform titles show the romanization of titles rather than the original script of the work and use Tolstoy's War and Peace as an example.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/wp.chs.harvard.edu\/chs-fellows\/2013\/08\/02\/the-oresteia-and-waterloo\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Oresteia and Waterloo | CHS Research Bulletin\u003C\/a\u003E - [5] This approach differs from novels such as Tolstoy's War and Peace and Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme, both of which situate their main character in the midst of the fighting, as well novels such as George Eliot's 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href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/About%20this%20book:%20Sense%20and%20Sensibility%20is%20a%20novel%20by%20Jane%20Austen,%20and%20was%20her%20first%20published%20work%20when%20it%20appeared%20in%201811%20under%20the%20pseudonym%20%22A%20Lady%22.%20A%20work%20of%20romantic%20fiction,%20Sense%20and%20Sensibility%20is%20set%20in%20southwest%20England%20between%201792%20and%201797,%20and%20portrays%20the%20life%20and%20loves%20of%20the%20Dashwood%20sisters,%20Elinor%20and%20Marianne.%20The%20novel%20follows%20the%20young%20ladies%20to%20their%20new%20home,%20a%20meagre%20cottage%20on%20a%20distant%20relative's%20property,%20where%20they%20experience%20love,%20romance%20and%20heartbreak.%20The%20philosophical%20resolution%20of%20the%20novel%20is%20ambiguous:%20the%20reader%20must%20decide%20whether%20sense%20and%20sensibility%20have%20truly%20merged.%20%20When%20Mr.%20Dashwood%20dies,%20his%20estate,%20Norland%20Park,%20passes%20directly%20to%20his%20only%20son%20John,%20the%20child%20of%20his%20first%20wife.%20His%20second%20wife,%20Mrs.%20Dashwood,%20and%20their%20daughters,%20Elinor,%20Marianne%20and%20Margaret,%20are%20left%20only%20a%20small%20income.%20On%20his%20deathbed,%20Mr.%20Dashwood%20extracts%20a%20promise%20from%20his%20son,%20that%20he%20will%20take%20care%20of%20his%20half-sisters;%20however,%20John's%20selfish%20and%20greedy%20wife,%20Fanny,%20soon%20persuades%20him%20to%20renege.%20John%20and%20Fanny%20immediately%20take%20up%20their%20place%20as%20the%20new%20owners%20of%20Norland,%20while%20the%20Dashwood%20women%20are%20reduced%20to%20the%20position%20of%20unwelcome%20guests.%20Mrs.%20Dashwood%20begins%20looking%20for%20somewhere%20else%20to%20live.%20%20In%20the%20meantime,%20Fanny's%20brother,%20Edward%20Ferrars,%20a%20pleasant,%20unassuming,%20intelligent%20but%20reserved%20young%20man,%20visits%20Norland%20and%20soon%20forms%20an%20attachment%20with%20Elinor.%20Fanny%20disapproves%20the%20match%20and%20offends%20Mrs.%20Dashwood%20with%20the%20implication%20that%20Elinor%20is%20motivated%20by%20money%20rather%20than%20love.%20Mrs.%20Dashwood%20indignantly%20speeds%20her%20search%20for%20a%20new%20home.%20%20Mrs.%20Dashwood%20moves%20her%20family%20to%20Barton%20Cottage%20in%20Devonshire,%20near%20the%20home%20of%20her%20cousin,%20Sir%20John%20Middleton.%20Their%20new%20home%20lacks%20many%20of%20the%20conveniences%20that%20they%20have%20been%20used%20to,%20however%20they%20are%20warmly%20received%20by%20Sir%20John,%20and%20welcomed%20into%20the%20local%20society,%20meeting%20his%20wife,%20Lady%20Middleton,%20his%20mother-in-law,%20Mrs.%20Jennings%20and%20his%20friend,%20the%20grave,%20quiet%20and%20gentlemanly%20Colonel%20Brandon.%20It%20soon%20becomes%20apparent%20that%20Colonel%20Brandon%20is%20attracted%20to%20Marianne,%20and%20Mrs.%20Jennings%20teases%20them%20about%20it.%20Marianne%20is%20not%20pleased%20as%20she%20considers%20Colonel%20Brandon,%20at%20thirty-five,%20to%20be%20an%20old%20bachelor%20incapable%20of%20falling%20in%20love,%20or%20inspiring%20love%20in%20anyone%20else.%20%20Marianne,%20out%20for%20a%20walk,%20gets%20caught%20in%20the%20rain,%20slips%20and%20sprains%20her%20ankle.%20The%20dashing,%20handsome%20John%20Willoughby%20sees%20the%20accident%20and%20assists%20her.%20Marianne%20quickly%20comes%20to%20admire%20his%20good%20looks%20and%20outspoken%20views%20on%20poetry,%20music,%20art%20and%20love.%20Mr.%20Willoughby's%20attentions%20are%20so%20overt%20that%20Elinor%20and%20Mrs.%20Dashwood%20begin%20to%20suspect%20that%20the%20couple%20are%20secretly%20engaged...%20(source:%20Wikipedia)%20About%20the%20author:%20Jane%20Austen%20(16%20December%201775%20%E2%80%93%2018%20July%201817)%20was%20an%20English%20novelist%20whose%20works%20of%20romantic%20fiction,%20set%20among%20the%20landed%20gentry,%20earned%20her%20a%20place%20as%20one%20of%20the%20most%20widely%20read%20writers%20in%20English%20literature.%20Her%20realism,%20biting%20irony%20and%20social%20commentary%20have%20gained%20her%20historical%20importance%20among%20scholars%20and%20critics.%20%20Austen's%20works%20critique%20the%20novels%20of%20sensibility%20of%20the%20second%20half%20of%20the%2018th%20century%20and%20are%20part%20of%20the%20transition%20to%2019th-century%20realism.%20Her%20plots,%20though%20fundamentally%20comic,%20highlight%20the%20dependence%20of%20women%20on%20marriage%20to%20secure%20social%20standing%20and%20economic%20security.%20Her%20work%20brought%20her%20little%20personal%20fame%20and%20only%20a%20few%20positive%20reviews%20during%20her%20lifetime,%20but%20the%20publication%20in%201869%20of%20her%20nephew's%20A%20Memoir%20of%20Jane%20Austen%20introduced%20her%20to%20a%20wider%20public,%20and%20by%20the%201940s%20she%20had%20become%20widely%20accepted%20in%20academia%20as%20a%20great%20English%20writer.%20(source:%20Wikipedia)%20About%20the%20Midwest%20Journal%20Writers'%20Club:%20This%20was%20created%20by%20popular%20request%20to%20enable%20any%20beginning%20or%20established%20author%20to%20improve%20their%20skills%20by%20studying%20quality%20editions%20of%20classic%20bestselling%20fiction.%20Join%20at%20http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhere misfortune and romance intertwine to produce popular emotional appeal\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHUxyZ6DST0?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--ImqVFnUNJM\/UfLuXw9gmmI\/AAAAAAAAJIk\/Xe9OfuNJB0I\/s1600\/SM-sense-and-sensibility.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--ImqVFnUNJM\/UfLuXw9gmmI\/AAAAAAAAJIk\/Xe9OfuNJB0I\/s400\/SM-sense-and-sensibility.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout\nthis book:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sense_and_Sensibility_%281981_TV_miniseries%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV miniseries)\"\u003ESense and Sensibility\u003C\/a\u003E is a novel by \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Austen\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jane Austen\"\u003EJane Austen\u003C\/a\u003E, and\nwas her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the\npseudonym \"A Lady\". A work of romantic fiction, Sense and\nSensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and\nportrays the life and loves of the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elinor_Dashwood\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Elinor Dashwood\"\u003EDashwood\u003C\/a\u003E sisters, \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sense_and_Sensibility\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sense and Sensibility\"\u003EElinor and\nMarianne\u003C\/a\u003E. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a\nmeagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they\nexperience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution\nof the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and\nsensibility have truly merged. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nWhen Mr.\nDashwood dies, his estate, Norland Park, passes directly to his only\nson John, the child of his first wife. His second wife, Mrs.\nDashwood, and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, are\nleft only a small income. On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood extracts a\npromise from his son, that he will take care of his \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sibling\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sibling\"\u003Ehalf-sisters\u003C\/a\u003E;\nhowever, John's selfish and greedy wife, Fanny, soon persuades him to\nrenege. John and Fanny immediately take up their place as the new\nowners of Norland, while the Dashwood women are reduced to the\nposition of unwelcome guests. Mrs. Dashwood begins looking for\nsomewhere else to live. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nIn the\nmeantime, Fanny's brother, \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Ferrars\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Edward Ferrars\"\u003EEdward Ferrars\u003C\/a\u003E, a pleasant, unassuming,\nintelligent but reserved young man, visits Norland and soon forms an\nattachment with Elinor. Fanny disapproves the match and offends Mrs.\nDashwood with the implication that Elinor is motivated by money\nrather than love. Mrs. Dashwood indignantly speeds her search for a\nnew home. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nMrs.\nDashwood moves her family to Barton Cottage in \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devon\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Devon\"\u003EDevonshire\u003C\/a\u003E, near the\nhome of her cousin, \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Middleton_%28administrator%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"John Middleton (administrator)\"\u003ESir John Middleton\u003C\/a\u003E. Their new home lacks many of\nthe conveniences that they have been used to, however they are warmly\nreceived by Sir John, and welcomed into the local society, meeting\nhis wife, Lady Middleton, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennings and his\nfriend, the grave, quiet and gentlemanly Colonel Brandon. It soon\nbecomes apparent that Colonel Brandon is attracted to Marianne, and\nMrs. Jennings teases them about it. Marianne is not pleased as she\nconsiders Colonel Brandon, at thirty-five, to be an old bachelor\nincapable of falling in love, or inspiring love in anyone else. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nMarianne,\nout for a walk, gets caught in the rain, slips and sprains her ankle.\nThe dashing, handsome John Willoughby sees the accident and assists\nher. Marianne quickly comes to admire his good looks and outspoken\nviews on poetry, music, art and love. Mr. Willoughby's attentions are\nso overt that Elinor and Mrs. Dashwood begin to suspect that the\ncouple are secretly engaged... (source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout\nthe author:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nJane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was\nan English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the\nlanded gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read\nwriters in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social\ncommentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and\ncritics. \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\nAusten's\nworks critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the\n18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.\nHer plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of\nwomen on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.\nHer work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive\nreviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her\nnephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public,\nand by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a\ngreat English writer. (source: Wikipedia)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv align=\"LEFT\" class=\"western\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nThis\nwas created by popular request to enable any beginning or established\nauthor to improve their skills by studying quality editions of\nclassic bestselling fiction. Join at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch4 class=\"zemanta-related-title\"\u003E\nRelated articles\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/192058197_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-persuasion-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen's Persuasion - another classic fiction bestseller\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-emma-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/191796834_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-emma-classic-fiction.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen's Emma - New Classic Fiction For Study\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523394_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe first year's fiction bestsellers study list is released!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournal.worstelldesign.com\/2013\/07\/classic-fiction-bestsellers-online.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188411349_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournal.worstelldesign.com\/2013\/07\/classic-fiction-bestsellers-online.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhy study classic fiction? To improve your real-world results.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523390_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/classic-bestselling-fiction-study-challenge.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA year's worth of Classic Fiction to Study - and Entertain...\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writing-bestseller-fiction-books.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523405_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writing-bestseller-fiction-books.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELearning to write by studying bestseller fiction books. Novel? No - classics.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Sites\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/werewolf.co.nz\/2013\/06\/chewing-on-the-entrails-of-genre\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ewerewolf » Zombie Love: Chewing on the Entrails of Genre\u003C\/a\u003E - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is Austen spiced with a zombie sub-plot which seems to directly offset a specific aspect of Austen's writing: decorum and class; conversely Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters would,\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2011\/03\/bacteria-for-supper-again\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E'Circuits of sense and sensibility' | Harvard Gazette\u003C\/a\u003E - Harvard biologist traces neural circuits involved in worm learning | A Harvard biologist succeeds in mapping a neural network for learned olfactory behavior, using a roundworm model to trace the dislike of a particular smell to\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/janeausten2013\/2013\/02\/15\/close-reading-of-sense-and-sensibility\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EClose Reading of Sense and Sensibility | General Incivility\u003C\/a\u003E - For this post, I will analyze the conversation Marianne and Elinor have about Edward in Chapter 4 (Volume I). After Marianne implies that Edward and Elinor will soon be engaged, Elinor immediately gives Marianne a lengthy\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blog.press.princeton.edu\/2013\/07\/29\/leah-price-explains-how-immortalizing-caroline-bingley-on-a-bank-note-may-make-sense\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELeah Price explains how immortalizing Caroline Bingley on a bank ...\u003C\/a\u003E - Reading different volumes of the same novel gives Miss Bingley and Darcy something in common, just as anyone reading Sense and Sensibility can guess Marianne Dashwood's fate once she reflects that “Our own library is\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/myblogs.informa.com\/jvc\/2013\/02\/17\/downton-abbey-austen\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDownton Abbey \u0026amp; Jane Austen; Or, in Praise of Lady Mary | Journal ...\u003C\/a\u003E - For example, in both Downton Abbey and Sense and Sensibility, actor Dan Stevens plays characters who are trying to honor promises that are absolutely essential to women's livelihoods.[1] In the second season of Downton,\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.baylor.edu\/britlit\/2012\/04\/23\/class-money-and-marriage-in-pride-and-prejudice\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EClass, Money, and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice | BritLit\u003C\/a\u003E - Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is one of the most loved novels ever written. It continues to be near the top of lists of 'most loved.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.baylor.edu\/britlit\/2012\/04\/27\/the-weight-of-the-albatross-coleridges-the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Weight of the Albatross: Coleridge's - Blogs @ Baylor University\u003C\/a\u003E - The Weight of the Albatross Coleridge, unbeknownst to most people, struggled for a large portion of his life with an.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=a0b3a847-39e3-4a46-aa4c-41f3ee5ef2c1\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#sense-sensibility","title":"Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility - classic fiction"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/feeds\/8960485370771485022\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-sense-sensibility-classic-fiction.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/8960485370771485022"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/8960485370771485022"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-sense-sensibility-classic-fiction.html","title":"Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility - classic fiction"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"robertworstell"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16109419616754661835"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--ImqVFnUNJM\/UfLuXw9gmmI\/AAAAAAAAJIk\/Xe9OfuNJB0I\/s72-c\/SM-sense-and-sensibility.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095470632981256819.post-4673494448183245888"},"published":{"$t":"2013-08-07T16:37:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-08-07T16:37:23.628-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Austen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"book"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"classic fiction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Emma"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jane Austen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"publishing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"writers club"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"writing"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Jane Austen's Emma - New Classic Fiction For Study"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#emma\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EYet another \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#emma\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Midwestern United States\"\u003EMidwest\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#emma\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E Journal Writers' Club Selection\u0026nbsp; now available.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oqxAq0UJNqE?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mE25rWUgjYo\/UfLuPq-vPwI\/AAAAAAAAJFs\/Yu2M0cISIOk\/s1600\/SM-Emma.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mE25rWUgjYo\/UfLuPq-vPwI\/AAAAAAAAJFs\/Yu2M0cISIOk\/s1600\/SM-Emma.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"270\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nAbout this book: \u003C\/h3\u003E\nEmma, by \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Austen\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jane Austen\"\u003EJane Austen\u003C\/a\u003E, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EBefore she began the novel, Austen wrote, \"I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.\" In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as \"\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emma_Woodhouse\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Emma Woodhouse\"\u003EEmma Woodhouse\u003C\/a\u003E, handsome, clever, and rich.\" Emma, however, is also rather spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Knightley\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"George Knightley\"\u003EGeorge Knightley\u003C\/a\u003E, her neighbour from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband, John. As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EAgainst Mr. Knightley's advice, Emma forges ahead with her new interest, and tries to match her new friend \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emma\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Emma\"\u003EHarriet Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, a sweet, pretty, but none-too-bright parlour boarder of seventeen —described as \"the natural daughter of somebody\" i.e. the illegitimate daughter of someone — to Mr. Elton, the local vicar. Emma becomes convinced that Mr. Elton's constant attentions are a result of his attraction and growing love for Harriet. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut before events can unfold as she plans, Emma must first persuade Harriet to refuse an advantageous marriage proposal... \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(source: Wikipedia) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nAbout the author: \u003C\/h3\u003E\nJane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_novel\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"English novel\"\u003EEnglish novelist\u003C\/a\u003E whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_literature\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"English literature\"\u003EEnglish literature\u003C\/a\u003E. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. \u003Cbr \/\u003EAusten's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. \u003Cbr \/\u003E(source: Wikipedia) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nAbout the Midwest Journal Writers' Club: \u003C\/h3\u003E\nThis was created by popular request to enable any beginning or established author to improve their skills by studying quality editions of classic bestselling fiction. Join at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com%20\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"\u003E\n\u003Ch3 class=\"zemanta-related-title\"\u003E\nRelated articles\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 0pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523394_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe first year's fiction bestsellers study list is released!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournal.worstelldesign.com\/2013\/07\/classic-fiction-bestsellers-online.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188411349_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournal.worstelldesign.com\/2013\/07\/classic-fiction-bestsellers-online.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhy study classic fiction? To improve your real-world results.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/a-conan-doyles-study-in-scarlet.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/191530696_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/a-conan-doyles-study-in-scarlet.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EA. Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet About this book: About the author: About the Midwest Journal Writers' Club: Related Articles Related Sites\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/robertworstell.tumblr.com\/post\/56566867824\/lewis-carrolls-alices-adventures-in-wonderland\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188740067_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/robertworstell.tumblr.com\/post\/56566867824\/lewis-carrolls-alices-adventures-in-wonderland\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/roofbeamreader.com\/2013\/08\/07\/5132\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/191653880_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/roofbeamreader.com\/2013\/08\/07\/5132\/\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen \u0026amp; the Tyranny of Illness (#AustenInAugustRBR)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2013\/aug\/02\/jane-austen-ring-fiction-novels\u0026amp;a=190366737\u0026amp;rid=79fec11c-684d-4312-9693-678256d0efd9\u0026amp;e=c6eb0c0930d2e4de21e2fc835aee2a4f\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/190366737_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2013\/aug\/02\/jane-austen-ring-fiction-novels\u0026amp;a=190366737\u0026amp;rid=79fec11c-684d-4312-9693-678256d0efd9\u0026amp;e=c6eb0c0930d2e4de21e2fc835aee2a4f\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWhat we shouldn't lose of Jane Austen\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Sites\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/myblogs.informa.com\/jvc\/2013\/02\/17\/downton-abbey-austen\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDownton Abbey \u0026amp; Jane Austen; Or, in Praise of Lady Mary | Journal ...\u003C\/a\u003E\n - Like Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Lady Mary has more than her fair \nshare of \"unlikeable\" moments, but when Mary expresses her point of view\n so clearly, it is difficult to stop oneself from standing up and \nscreaming,\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sites.duke.edu\/janeaustenwannabe\/2013\/03\/22\/the-similarities-between-families-in-frankenstein-and-emma\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe Similarities between Families in Frankenstein and Emma | jane ...\u003C\/a\u003E\n - In Jane Austen's Emma, Emma is described as a \"handsome\" and \"clever\"\n girl who grew up with an older sister, a father and a governess named \nMiss Taylor (5). Emma's mother had died \"too long ago for her to have \nmore\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.statepress.com\/2013\/01\/14\/asu-students-play-role-in-emma-production\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EASU students play role in 'Emma' production | ASU News | The State ...\u003C\/a\u003E\n - Arizona Theatre Company's first production of 2013 takes audiences \nback to 18th century England with a lavish musical adaption of Jane \nAusten's \"Emma\" with an ensemble featuring four ASU students. The \nmusical follows\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/inkwell\/?p=236\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EEmma Woodhouse-Powerfully in Love | Inkwell - Stetson University\u003C\/a\u003E\n - Jane Austen's Emma, while essentially a marriage plot concerned with \nthe niceties, formalities, and strictures of a hierarchical society, \nportrays a heroine vastly different from the majority of Austen's female\n characters. From the\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com\/?p=16839\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EJane Austen and the Ethics of Care - Better Living through Beowulf\u003C\/a\u003E\n - My Faculty Book Group's current work, Fruits of Sorrow; Framing Our \nAttention to Suffering, makes an interesting use of Jane Austen's Emma. \nExploring whether women have a natural \"ethics of care,\" as some \nfeminists have\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=79fec11c-684d-4312-9693-678256d0efd9\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#emma","title":"Jane Austen's Emma - New Classic Fiction For Study"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/feeds\/4673494448183245888\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-emma-classic-fiction.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/4673494448183245888"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/4673494448183245888"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/08\/jane-austen-emma-classic-fiction.html","title":"Jane Austen's Emma - New Classic Fiction For Study"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"robertworstell"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16109419616754661835"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mE25rWUgjYo\/UfLuPq-vPwI\/AAAAAAAAJFs\/Yu2M0cISIOk\/s72-c\/SM-Emma.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095470632981256819.post-8132960058318644329"},"published":{"$t":"2013-07-26T19:01:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-08-07T14:20:28.864-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"alice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"best seller"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bestsellers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"book"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"books"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"classics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fantasy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fiction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hunting of the Snark"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lewis Carroll"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"midwest journal"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"rabbit"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"United States"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Wonderland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"writers club"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#alice-in-wonderland\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAnother Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ciframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zeIXfdogJbA?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5341\/9368594712_3e860f88ee_z.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5341\/9368594712_3e860f88ee_z.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"270\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout this book:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland\"\u003EAlice's Adventures in\nWonderland\u003C\/a\u003E (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865\nnovel. Written by \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_literature\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"English literature\"\u003EEnglish author\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Carroll\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lewis Carroll\"\u003ECharles Lutwidge Dodgson\u003C\/a\u003E under the\npseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls\ndown a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar,\nanthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the\nstory lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is\nconsidered to be one of the best examples of the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Literary_nonsense\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Literary nonsense\"\u003Eliterary nonsense\u003C\/a\u003E\ngenre, and its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery\nhave been enormously influential in both popular culture and\nliterature, especially in the \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantasy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Fantasy\"\u003Efantasy genre\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\nAlice is feeling bored while sitting on the\nriverbank with her sister, when she notices a talking, clothed \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Rabbit\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"White Rabbit\"\u003EWhite\nRabbit\u003C\/a\u003E with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit\nhole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curious hall with many\nlocked doors of all sizes. She finds a small key to a door too small\nfor her to fit through, but through it she sees an attractive garden.\nShe then discovers a bottle on a table labelled \"DRINK ME\",\nthe contents of which cause her to shrink too small to reach the key\nwhich she has left on the table. A cake with \"EAT ME\" on it\ncauses her to grow to such a tremendous size her head hits the\nceiling...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(source: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice_in_wonderland\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWikipedia\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the author:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCharles Lutwidge\nDodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the\npen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician,\nlogician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings\nare Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the\nLooking-Glass, as well as the poems \"\u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Hunting of the Snark\"\u003EThe Hunting of the Snark\u003C\/a\u003E\"\nand \"Jabberwocky\", all examples of the genre of literary\nnonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and\nfantasy, and there are societies in many parts of the world\n(including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New\nZealand) dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and\nthe investigation of his life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(source: \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Carroll\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWikipedia\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EAbout the Midwest Journal Writers' Club:\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nThis\nwas created by popular request to enable any beginning or established\nauthor to improve their skills by studying quality editions of\nclassic bestselling fiction.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"western\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003EVisit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\"\u003Ehttp:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for\nmore Midwest Journal Writers' Club selections\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch2 class=\"western\" style=\"page-break-before: always;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=6095470632981256819\" name=\"__RefHeading__105154_1820906221\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; 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height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EUpdate: New Writers' Club Selection - Make money with bestselling classics\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/188523394_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EThe first year's fiction bestsellers study list is released!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/bottledsmoke.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/06\/fantasy-vs-reality\/\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/191219849_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/bottledsmoke.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/06\/fantasy-vs-reality\/\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFantasy vs. Reality\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none outside none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/opera\/10193501\/Alices-Adventures-in-Wonderland-Opera-Holland-Park.html\u0026amp;a=186943439\u0026amp;rid=79fec11c-684d-4312-9693-678256d0efd9\u0026amp;e=d4d4f33679c3844cc7f2e7b229e96312\" style=\"border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/186943439_80_80.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none; display: block; margin: 0pt; max-width: 100%; padding: 0pt; width: 80px;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/opera\/10193501\/Alices-Adventures-in-Wonderland-Opera-Holland-Park.html\u0026amp;a=186943439\u0026amp;rid=79fec11c-684d-4312-9693-678256d0efd9\u0026amp;e=d4d4f33679c3844cc7f2e7b229e96312\" style=\"display: block; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0pt; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, Opera Holland Park\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\nRelated Sites\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2013\/07\/31\/tools-of-the-cold-atom-trade-optical-molasses\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ETools of the Cold-Atom Trade: Optical Molasses – Uncertain Principles\u003C\/a\u003E - The dormouse being stuffed into a teapot, from http:\/\/www.alice-in-wonderland.net\/alice2a.html. `Once upon a time there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a great hurry; `and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/spotthescot.scotblogs.wooster.edu\/2013\/08\/02\/bringingliterarylotstolife\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EBringing Literary Lots to Life | Spot the Scot\u003C\/a\u003E - Alice in Wonderland's Tea Party. Sandwich boats! Enjoy the photos! I will be posting more soon now that the events are starting. For now, I'm going to get some sleep before I return to the lot bright and early tomorrow morning!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/medinger.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/01\/off-to-oxford-london-and-edinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EOff to Oxford, London, and Edinburgh | educating alice\u003C\/a\u003E - *As many who read this blog know, I'm obsessed with Alice in Wonderland. Every year I read it aloud; for a taste of last year's students' enthusiastic responses check out their book trailers. Providing context is key; I tell them a\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/fosterfollynews.com\/2013\/08\/01\/chipola-theatre-earns-superiors-for-season-in-new-center\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EChipola Theatre earns Superiors for season in new center ...\u003C\/a\u003E - The season closed with the children's show \"Alice in Wonderland\" which was performed for hundreds of local elementary students, many of whom were experiencing live theatre for the first time. About \"Noises Off,\" FCSAA\u0026nbsp;...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_g.png?x-id=79fec11c-684d-4312-9693-678256d0efd9\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php#alice-in-wonderland","title":"Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/feeds\/8132960058318644329\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/alice-wonderland-classic-fiction-bestseller.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/8132960058318644329"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6095470632981256819\/posts\/default\/8132960058318644329"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/topsellingbooks.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/07\/alice-wonderland-classic-fiction-bestseller.html","title":"Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"robertworstell"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16109419616754661835"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6095470632981256819.post-3993759725743671935"},"published":{"$t":"2013-07-09T17:26:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-08-07T15:25:09.021-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bestsellers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"book"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ebook"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"editing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"itunes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"kobo"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lulu"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nook"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"publishing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"writing"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How to Help Writers Study Their Craft - in spite of..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIt's begun - another publishing journey \u003Ci\u003Epar excellance\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mQ8ep3gLqCU\/UfLuZjxYOmI\/AAAAAAAAJJM\/JpfO47eLGvM\/s1600\/SM-war-and-peace02.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mQ8ep3gLqCU\/UfLuZjxYOmI\/AAAAAAAAJJM\/JpfO47eLGvM\/s1600\/SM-war-and-peace02.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n(Or - as Bill and Ted would say - \"A Most Excellent Journey.\")\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nRepublishing classics isn't as easy as it sounds. And the howls I get sometimes when modern authors criticize all this editing I do in order to bring quality work to them - can get annoying.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nHowever, much as the old bandage has to come off in order to treat the cut or scrape, so must one endure innocent barbed comments, lightly or brusquely thrown.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThe point of this is to create a study-series where an author would only need to download copies of these books and learn from the all-time great writers of history. Like sitting at the feet of the masters...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nI covered this earlier, when \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/selfpublishebook.midwestjournalpress.com\/2013\/06\/writers-club-bestseller-classic-fiction-list.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EI released the entire list of books\u003C\/a\u003E part of the Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selections.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nIf you want to find all the step-by-step instructions on converting a book into a published work, you may want to stop by my \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/publish-ebook_fiction-publishers.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\"Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors\"\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;page - there's a video there which will rush you through it (of course the book is more manageable, and has recently been updated with mostly-unknown new marketing data.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nFor our use today, I'm laying this out in the simple sequence just in case you ever get the idea to go and republish 26 classic fiction works on your own.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nAs much as possible, lay it out on an assembly line. Public domain works vary in quality. Some of the Google Books and \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Internet Archive\"\u003EInternet Archives\u003C\/a\u003E stuff can get pretty raw with typos. So get the best content you can. Even then, you'll find they do some pretty odd things with their editing. (Again, see that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/publish-ebook_fiction-publishers.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"Just Publish!\" ebook\u003C\/a\u003E above for what you need and don't need in a book these days.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E1. Do all your text first.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\na. Clean up your text. Open it up in Libre(Open)Office and use the Writer2Epub plug-in for epub conversion.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nb. Add a Forward (which makes it into a newly copyrightable work) and Resource section at the end (which links to your site page for the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EWriters' Club\u003C\/a\u003E.) This can be done by cut-paste and importing\/overwriting style sheets. The forward has blanks in it - you'll be finishing this up later, just before publishing. Save is in \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"LibreOffice\"\u003ELibreOffice\u003C\/a\u003E in native format.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E2. Do all your covers next.\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nUsing \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GIMP\"\u003EGIMP\u003C\/a\u003E, you can then generate covers for each book - again, looking for \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Public domain\"\u003Epublic domain images\u003C\/a\u003E which are appropriate and eye-catching. Remember that these thumbnails are very small - so will need to also have large text. Again - get one cover the way you like it (in layers) and then you can adjust the elements to fit as you import the images.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n3. Make sure your own landing page is ready to accept data.\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nYou're going to be aggregating links as you publish all these books, so you need to have your site's landing page (\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/midwestjournalpress.com\/buy-bestseller-fiction-books.php\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Elike the home page for the Writers' Club\u003C\/a\u003E) so it can have graphics and links added simply.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003E\n4. Now you publish every single work as you go.\u003C\/h3\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\na. Fire up \u003Ca class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Calibre (software)\"\u003ECalibre\u003C\/a\u003E and make sure you've imported all these books you're re-publishing.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nb. Open up a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/spotlight\/robertworstell\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ELulu browser tab\u003C\/a\u003E to start your project, then \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/search\/search.html?q=robert+worstell\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eanother tab with Kobo\u003C\/a\u003E. (This will publish your works to iTunes and Nook as well, eventually. Amazon and Smashwords don't like public domain, but Lulu and Kobo have no problems with new editions floating in.) Those links simply show how I've been at this awhile...\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nc. For each book, you'll need to finish up the forward, export it to epub format, check that book in Sigil, import into Calibre and check it.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nd. Write a smashing description in the metadata on Calibre.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\ne. Then publish it to Lulu, who will assign it an ISBN for you. Record that in Calibre.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nf. Finally, publish it in Kobo, pulling the metadata you've saved.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThis last is the longest part, as it's the most time consuming. The rest can be done as you go, which is just a few days' work for as many as you want to create. The covers take less time than reformatting and editing the books. It all gains momentum as you go - which is vital, as you can get distracted from big projects like this pretty easily. But the rewards trickle in as they get accepted by the distributors (Lulu, Kobo, iTunes, B\u0026amp;N.)\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nOf course, you should probably build up to this by doing a few shorter series. I republished my \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/dr-robert-c-worstell\/how-to-build-your-own-honest-online-business-online-millionaire-plan-book-two\/ebook\/product-21034764.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EOnline Millionaire Plan series\u003C\/a\u003E as well as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/spotlight\/robertworstell?searchTerms=winning+your+infinite+future\" target=\"_blank\"\u003E\"Winning Your Infinite Freedom\"\u003C\/a\u003E as a time-dated series.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThen you can start being a publisher for real, through finding great authors and publishing their stuff.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nThat's the overview, with enough links to let you know how to pull it all off.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nBack to my grindstone...\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"zemanta-related\" style=\"clear: both; 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