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(e)Book – Love and friendship

  (e) Book –  Love and friendship Full title :  Love and friendship and other early works Author : Jane Austen Score : /10 Year : 1790 (original) ; 2012 (this edition) Publisher : Duke Classics   ISBN  978-1-62012-155-9  // 9781620121559  (ebook)  Pages :  Language: English Jane Austen is best known for her 6 novels, which all have been adapted into tv movies - but after having read Virginia Woolf's short fiction in chronological order, I decided to apply the same for Austen's publications, to better appreciate her growth and evolution in narrative style. So, before reading her novels which were released from 1811 to 1817, in the following order :  Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,  Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, I decided to go back to her teenage years, reading Love and Friendships, and other early works.
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TV show - Sherlock Holmes (1984)





TV show - Sherlock Holmes (1984)
Score : 8 /10 
Multiple directors
Country : UK
Language : English
Duration : 44 episodes (X50 minutes) + a 2 hour movie The Hound of Bakerseville, spread over 7 series from 1984 to 1994 

Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes. most of the episodes are close to the original novels they are based upon, with some liberties, especially towards the end of the show. It pains to see Jeremy become so sick at the end that some of these stories had to be altered a bit - with some or less success.

2 actors played Dr Watson ; it took me a second viewing to like both of them.

Contrary to some other adaptations, these are period specific, not updated to nowdays.

The intro suits the spirit of Holmes very well, with violins.

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