Just about to start reading this. Excitement!

thebeebakery:

“Jane Austen famously never wrote a scene with men alone in it. I originally had it written that way. A lot was added, but it sort of worked with everything cut down, I think. One of those invented all-male scenes is when Bingley practices making a marriage proposal  to Darcy, so he can work up the courage to do it for real. Well, we wanted to show Darcy and Bingley being close for that moment, because they were great friends. We wanted to show that Darcy was a human being instead of being stuck up.

(Deborah Moggach, Screenwriter)

(Source: mylyricalreality)

(Source: madeleineishere, via librarienne)

singing-a-song-of-angry-men:

Les Miz Fact #6

In the American Civil War, all of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times.

Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause.
Both revolts were defeated. 

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Now that is a fantasy!

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"And so it has been and so it is written, On the doorway to paradise, That those who falter and those who fall, Must pay the price!" — Stars, Les Miserables, Alain Boublil (via singing-the-song-of-angry-men)