Jane Austen’s ‘Pride & Prejudice,’ a blueprint to the modern romance
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This year, readers around the world are celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. 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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