A Year in Books/Day 73: The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen

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  • Title: The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen
  • Compiled by: Dominique Enright
  • Year Published: 2002 (Barnes & Noble, Inc. by arrangement with Michael O’Mara Books Limited)
  • Year Purchased: 2002-2004
  • Source: Barnes & Noble clearance rack
  • About: Excerpts from her fiction and personal letters are featured in this slim but potent volume.
  • Motivation: Jane Austen! Quotes!
  • Times Read: 2
  • Random Excerpt/Page 63: “Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.” (Letter to Anna Austen, 28 September 1814)
  • Happiness Scale: 10
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