Here’s a hot take. Publishing beautiful books has never mattered more than now. Gorgeous covers, gilded edges, swirly endpapers and sharp illustrations have long been ways to give the words inside ...

Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813 when she was 37 years old. The book’s title came from a Fanny Burney novel. Austen probably got the title Pride and Prejudice from Cecilia by Fanny ...

“When all Pride and Prejudice, all Interests and Designs, being submitted to the Honour of God, and the Discharge of our Duty,” an anonymous clergyman wrote in 1734, “the Holy Scriptures shall again ...