“The sun is rising behind Downton Abbey, a great and splendid house in a great and splendid park. So secure does it appear that it seems as if the way of life it represents will last for another thousand years. It’s won’t.” Recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most critically acclaimed [...]
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Darkness Falls
Nastasya may be more than 400 years old, but she’s only now learning to truly live a worthy life. After centuries of a hard-partying lifestyle, Nastasya has finally found something that might resemble peace and contentment at River’s Edge, a kind of rehab for wayward immortals. Though her life isn’t perfect, she’s slowly learning to [...]
Mr. Darcy’s Diary
In the classic Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice, readers are given plenty of insight into Elizabeth Bennett’s point of view and mindset, but very little is given of Mr. Darcy. Indeed, Fitzwilliam Darcy remains such an enigma for most the novel that he is, by far, the most popular Austen character with contemporary Austen-esque [...]
