If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

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Topic

Books

Speaker

Kitty

Author

Jane Austen

Source

Catherine, or, The Bower

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Austen, Jane. "Catharine, or, The Bower." Volume the Third. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1951.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Topic
Single men Men and women

Author

Jane Austen
Source
Pride and Prejudice
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Opening lines
Language
English
Time
1813 1810s 19th century
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Original Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 1.

Another quote from the 1810s

Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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Topic
Power of literature

Author

William Hazlitt
Language
English
Time
1817 1810s 19th century
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Citation

Hazlitt, William. "Hamlet." Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London: Rowland Hunter and Charles Ollier and James Ollier, 1817.

Another quote about Books

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman

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Topic
Power of literature Books

Author

Clifton Fadiman
Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Fadiman, Clifton. Any Number Can Play. The World Publishing Company, 1957.