Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.