What was Jane Austen’s best novel? These experts think they know
To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we’re pitting Jane Austen’s much-loved novels against each other in a battle of wit, charm and romance.
https://theconversation.com/what-was-jane-austens-best-novel-these-experts-think-they-know-252669
Jane Austen at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/68
10 August 1929 | A German Jewish boy, Manfred Klaus Rosenthal, was born in Berlin.
In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
CPOD from 2025/08/01
Édouard Manet's The Café-Concert, 1878. Scene set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart, where women on the fringes of society freely intermingled with well-heeled gentlemen. Today is International Beer Day.
Artist: Édouard Manet; License: Public domain; Credit GgEZL0iu5Gl9FA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level
See explanation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edouard_Manet_-_At_the_Caf%C3%A9_-_Google_Art_Project.
23 April 1923 | Czech Jew, Vilém Lederer, was born in Prague.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive.
24 April 1934 | A German Jewish boy, Kurt Peter Wiesen, was born in Eisenach.
In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
24 April 1930 | A German Jewish boy, Robert Mamlok, was born in Berlin.
In January 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
25 April 1928 | A Czech Jewish boy, Petr Haim, was born in Prague.
He was deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.