“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So opens Jane Austen’s Regency-era romantic comedy “Pride and Prejudice,” which ...

A reader at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of "Pride and Prejudice," book experts, writers and fans read the entire novel in a 12-hour livestream. All of ...

In September, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Jane Austen’s classic, about the tortured romance of two people frazzled by miscommunications and assumptions. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin ...

Scholars may celebrate Jane Austen for her pioneering use of free indirect discourse, but you don’t need an English degree to appreciate that she helped invent the romantic comedy as we know it. A ...