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Pride and Prejudice

Book Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – Why It Still Matters

Have you ever judged someone too quickly? Maybe it was a colleague who seemed arrogant at first. Or a stranger you met who looked distant, only to turn out kind later. We’ve all been there. That moment of “Oops, I was wrong.” That’s exactly the heart of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Written back in Read more…

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Anusuya and an unconventional birthday present that changed her life

I have always enjoyed a good story and thanked my lucky stars I was born in a family of avid readers and wonderful storytellers. In fact, even before I had learned to read on my own, my mum would read me captivating fairy tales and Assamese folklore every afternoon. My dad would take over in Read more…

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun. - Jane Austen

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Book Review of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Book Review: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen

Elizabeth’s spirit’s soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. ‘How could you begin?’ said she. ‘I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?’ ‘I cannot fix Read more…