A Jane Austen Valentine: Rankling and Swooning Hearts for 200 Years!

Many associate Jane Austen with romance. I also appreciate her slightly stinging reproves of the process. So in celebration of Valentine's Day, here are few lines from Pride and Prejudice to make you swoon and or rankle your romantic ire. "I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"   "I have... Continue Reading →

Pride & Prejudice: A Sentimental Comedy in Three Acts (1935), by Helen Jerome

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Pride & Prejudice, Chapter 1 Here is the most universally acknowledged famous first line in literature which continues to inspire the admiration of the world and numerous stage, film, and TV adaptations.... Continue Reading →

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