NEWS - Jane Austen in supermarkets and airports.

A Reuters Oddly Enough news story says Headline publishers are coming out with a "Classic Romances" series of Jane Austen's novels. According to the item, the publisher's fiction editor is unhappy with how other editions present Austen "in a very dry and academic way." They're trying to mass-market them to compete with more modern fare.

Someone finally gets it! The great works of creative literature--plays, novels, and poems--weren't written to plague students, they were written to be enjoyed.