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Pop Culture Happy Hour

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Rereading Pride & Prejudice

DEC 2, 202527 MIN
Pop Culture Happy Hour

Rereading Pride & Prejudice

DEC 2, 202527 MIN

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This year, readers around the world are celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. Today we’ve got an episode of NPR’s Books We’ve Loved where Linda Holmes, Andrew Limbong and B.A. Parker discuss Austen’s seminal novel Pride & Prejudice. The trio weighs in on how the romance genre continues to reference the book’s “enemies to lovers” story – and why the tale’s leads Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy still make us and laugh and swoon even today.

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