Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen (also rec’d by Marlon James , Norman Mailer , Nora Ephron & Richard E. Grant )
Buy on AmazonUnlike many other writers, I started reading very late. For a long time, I only read comics and super-hero stories, then one day, my stepmother [Elizabeth Jane Howard] – who’s also a novelist – insisted that I read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. After half an hour, I knocked at her door to know how it finished, I had to know whether Elizabeth Bennet was going to fall for Darcy. That’s how I started reading. I read a lot the year I was at boarding school in Brighton, I think when you’re 1...
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"Unlike many other writers, I started reading very late. For a long time, I only read comics and super-hero stories, then one day, my stepmother [Elizabeth Jane Howard] – who’s also a novelist – insisted that I read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. After half an hour, I knocked at her door to know how it finished, I had to know whether Elizabeth Bennet was going to fall for Darcy. That’s how I started reading. I read a lot the year I was at boarding school in Brighton, I think when you’re 1..."
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