Captain Heathcliff

First of all, great news for those who haven't got themselves a copy of Libby Sternberg's Sloane Hall yet. As she herself wrote to let us know,

my novel Sloane Hall is being offered for a limited time for 99 cents in E-Book format. It's part of the Istoria Books Gift of Summer Reading sale.

The book is available here.

The Wuthering Heights video game project seems to be quite interesting for some news outlets. G4TV, Kotaku and Geekology all echo the news.

In the meantime, the Telegraph-Journal sticks to the novel's more traditional 'usage' as a school read.

In an article for The Independent, Margaret Drabble finds traces of Heathcliff in Jules Verne's Captain Nemo:

The flying fish and sharks and giant squid of Verne's novel entranced me. I was in love with Captain Nemo, the brooding cultured misanthrope of the deeps, who combined the romantic qualities of Heathcliff and Byron with the ruthlessness of Macbeth.

The Times discusses boarding schools:

Just as they weren't ever like Malory Towers, perhaps they are no longer like those in Jane Eyre or Nicholas Nickleby either. (Sarah Ebner)

Hopefully not, although Carus Wilson's new school is still standing and functioning as a boarding school.

Acuadoiro posts in Portuguese about Jane Eyre and, also in Portuguese, Cinema e Argumento discusses Dario Marianelli's soundtrack for the 2011 adaptation.

Categories: Alert, Books, Jane Eyre, Software, Wuthering Heights