Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits by Jack Murnighan

Author:Jack Murnighan [Murnighan, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Nonfiction, Reference, Writing, Classics, History
ISBN: 978-0307459879
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

The Buzz: Jane is an excellent model for an independent young woman. She’s backtalking (when appropriate), strong-willed, intolerant of injustice, persevering, and aggressively honest—but she also gets her man in the end. And she’s the perfect incarnation of the dreamer who wants more than she has known theretofore (see “Best Line” on the opposite page). What could be a better formula for a novel to appeal to girls of all ages?

What People Don’t Know (But Should): Though much of Charlotte’s earliest biography, written by her friend and contemporary Elizabeth Gaskell, is exaggerated, it does appear true that the eldest Brontë sister was so shy she would sit with her back to her friends when they would visit her. And, to top off the tragedy that was her life, she died while pregnant, having very recently married her father’s rector, a considerably older man.

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