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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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Movie – North By Northwest




Movie – North By Northwest
Score : 9.5/10
Year : 1959
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Country : USA
Language : English
Duration:2h16
Writers : Ernest Lehman  

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One of the best Hitchcok movies sees Cary Grant as Roger Thornhil, an advertising executive on the run across the country, trying to survive as he's mistakenly thought to be a government agent... 

Cary Grant carries this thrilling action movie with superbe acting in the various situations he's thrown into, and thoroughly convinces he's really running for his life. 

The rest of the cast includes : 
Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carrol,  Martin Landau, Edward Platt, and many others, more or less ''important''. 

They deliver the cleverly written dialogues very aptly, and those supposed to be threatening are quite good, just like the comic relief moments break the tension and suspense. 

Bernard Herrmann's music is engaging, and accompanies the scenes very well, no matter which ; from action and adventure, to suspense and humour, everything fits. 

The cinematography in this movie is excellent, and can trull be appreciated in the bluray edition - more on that ''in the medias'' section.  


The intro is very inventive and ahead of its times and leads to Alfred's cameo, whilst various scenes are now cult classic... I'll let you discover them amongst the pictures here 

 the intro








No cameo is ever the same...  









leading to the most famous scene...  










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