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Jane Austen

A thematically organized wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the works of Jane Austen.
 Jane Austen is one of the most eminently quotable authors in all of English letters and her books abound with delightful observations that are memorable for their sparkling wit and humor. This compilation collects several hundred quotes and extracts from Jane Austen’s works, organized thematically and illustrated with spot art. Examples include: Marriage: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” (Pride and Prejudice); Happiness: “I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way.” (Sense and Sensibility); Personality: “I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other.” (Emma).

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Literary Wit and Wisdom

Janesplains: A Compendium of Jane Austen's Wit & Wisdom

Edgar Allan Poe

An illustrated wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the fiction and nonfiction of Edgar Allan Poe, organized by theme and presented in a lighter-than-Poe context.

This book will collect several hundred quotes and aphorisms from Poe’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Quotes will be organized in thematic chapter groupings, and each chapter will be prefaced with several introductory paragraphs that discuss Poe’s preoccupation with their subject matter in a lighter vein. Chapter subjects will include such themes as “Madness, ” “Dreams, ” “Revenge, ” “Mortality, ” and “Premature Burial. ” Spot illustrations will be distributed through the text.

Poe Knows: A Miscellany of Macabre Musings