A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has…

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