It has one of the most
famous opening lines in literature, it turned Colin Firth into a
heartthrob and it spawned a zombie spin-off. Now Pride and Prejudice has
reached the venerable age of 200.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the bicentenary
of Pride and Prejudice will be accompanied by a surge of Jane
Austen-related events and merchandise - and articles that shamelessly
hijack the novel's first sentence.
Monday's anniversary is being marked by a "readathon" of the novel at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, which has launched an 11th-hour internet campaign to find an international star to read the first chapter.
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