Lines by Jane Austen

Jane Austen

English novelist · 1775–1817

Jane Austen wrote six novels about courtship, money and manners among the English gentry. Her dry, exact irony made the domestic novel a form that could say sharp things quietly.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 1

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