Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. (Mark Haddon)

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Mark Haddon

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