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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19981011
Author:Harriet Winslow

In recent years, television has been gobbling up classic novels and adapting them for the small screen. This has been especially popular on cable, where A&E Network started with Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and hasn't stopped. Even USA Network took on "Moby Dick," competing in what once was strictly PBS's domain.

Now NBC is trying classics. But instead of choosing a piece of literature that would allow the network to concentrate on special effects, as it did with Jonathan Swift's satire "Gulliver's Travels" or Homer's "The Odyssey," the network picked one of literature's most ...

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