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...plot points and provide another important study aid by highlighting key quotes. Who's helping the company distill the works of Austen, Dickens and Shakespeare into précis such as the one below of Romeo and Juliet? John Sutherland, who chaired the judging panel for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction. The University College London professor says text messaging's "educational opportunities are immense." Perhaps, assuming such bite-size lessons will help translate that "rdng is FUNdmntl...
...public domain. In the past week, Google has activated a searchable database of its first 10,000 digitized books—none of which are under copyright protection. Some of the works from the Harvard collection included in this first release are volumes by Henry James, Edith Wharton, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Margaret Fuller. The resumption this week of scanning in-copyright materials has intensified uproar over the initiative. The Authors Guild, which represents more than 8,000 writers, filed suit to stop Google Print in September, and the Association of American Publishers, which includes more than...
...some nonsense” linking the book’s creative failure to gay men’s procreative failure.Hollinghurst, however, seems refreshingly unconcerned about success or failure. “People attach far too much importance to prizes,” he shrugged when asked about winning the Booker for “The Line of Beauty.” “I’m still amazed at the effect…Suddenly you become noticed all over the world.”While clearly no strategist or self-promoter, Hollinghurst plays a fierce game of armchair...
...highly praised for its second release “The Wreck of the Minot.” Also playing that night are Cocked n’ Loaded, The Humanoids, and That Handsome Devil. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $9. (CEJ)Alan Hollingshurst. The winner of the 2004 Booker Prize reads from “The Line of Beauty,” his novel about Thatcher-era London. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street. 6 p.m. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk. (DJH)Michael J. Sandel. If you can?...
...peppered with vivid eroticism. But then again, enjoyment of Jane Austen is not restricted to upper-middle-class bachelorettes, or Faulkner to Southerners. At home in Great Britain, Hollinghurst and “The Line of Beauty” have earned greater acclaim, including the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Whereas the gay classification has arguably narrowed Hollinghurst’s following in the United States, it has only provoked wider interest among British readers. When “The Swimming-Pool Library,” published in 1988, fell under England’s “Section 28?...