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Classics given a steamy Fifty Shades of Grey makeover
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 17, 2012 | Emily Andrews

Posted on 07/18/2012 7:16:19 AM PDT by C19fan

Devotees of Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters may wish to loosen their corsets and have the smelling salts within reach. Some of the greatest works of English literature have been controversially ‘sexed up’ for the 21st century. Following the success of erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, one enterprising publisher has given classics such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights a bawdy makeover.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: literature; porn
Vulgarization of classic literature for the vulgar age we live in. Did the publisher trolled around the internet for fan fiction authors?
1 posted on 07/18/2012 7:16:31 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Civilization continues its death plunge.


2 posted on 07/18/2012 7:23:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: C19fan
"Classics" means Aristophanes and Catullus, who might be able to teach them a thing or two about erotic writing.

Some of the old Loeb bilingual editions of Greek and Latin classics have passages left in Latin or turned into Italian, to avoid prosecution under the Comstock laws.

3 posted on 07/18/2012 7:37:58 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan

First, we had the Kenyan’s minions rewriting American history to include Dear Leader.

Now we have them taking their crayons to literature.


4 posted on 07/18/2012 7:41:54 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: C19fan

Hheeeehehehehehehheeeee!


5 posted on 07/18/2012 7:45:57 AM PDT by arderkrag (ABOs are Romneybot trolls. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
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To: C19fan

Disgusting.


6 posted on 07/18/2012 8:54:39 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: C19fan
From the article:

while sleuth Sherlock Holmes has a sexual relationship with his sidekick Dr Watson in the updated edition.

I really don't want to know what happens between Peter Pan and the Lost Boys in the updated edition. Or what the characters in The Hundred Acre Wood do to Winnie the Pooh when he gets stuck in the Honey Tree.

7 posted on 07/18/2012 8:56:15 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: C19fan

Ironic. This seems the reverse of Bowdlerisation. I can’t wait for the rape of Lady McBeth.


8 posted on 07/18/2012 8:57:25 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: C19fan

I shudder to think of what they will do with the works of H. Wadsworth Longfellow.


9 posted on 07/18/2012 9:07:39 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: C19fan

some people see purity, goodness, decency and must trash it.

Sad for our society - especially our children and grandchildren. Who will have to try to make it in a society that is systematically destroying everything good and decent.

We are a society in decline and will collapse unless we turn around and choose a better, wiser path. We are already beginning to reap the fruit .......... but it still may not be too late- one can hope anyway


10 posted on 07/18/2012 9:23:53 AM PDT by Babashane
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Emily Bronte’s, “Wuthering Heights” is steamy enough, as is.


11 posted on 07/18/2012 9:56:55 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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Especially this version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91_jymgH8QY


12 posted on 07/18/2012 10:03:18 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: sportutegrl
The funny thing most people just think about the first half of the novel, dramatized in the famous black and white movie version, but don't one does hear too much about all the ugliness and brutality of Heathcliff after Cathy dies.
13 posted on 07/18/2012 12:09:43 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Damn you, you beat me to it.


14 posted on 07/18/2012 12:10:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: dfwgator

I have my moments, few and far between, but I have them.


15 posted on 07/18/2012 3:25:06 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: C19fan
Publisher's do slash fiction. Western Civ is commiting ever faster thanks to corporate bastards. Corporations are not conservative, they are greedy soulless bastards.
16 posted on 07/19/2012 8:29:41 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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