It’s Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, which “beat Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre in a survey of members of the 700-strong Romantic Novelists’ Association. Gone With the Wind, Wuthering Heights and Rebecca were also in the top five.”
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How About A Little Politics With Your Candy? (The Role Of Art)
Steve Almond writes a book about candy and throws in a few political opinions for good measure. Then he gets trashed by readers. “What really bummed me out about the Amazon haters wasn’t that they disagreed with my politics, but that they immediately summoned such genuine outrage at me for deigning to express a political opinion at all.”