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What did these great writers have in common? (Apart from fatal illness obviously!)
When they spent half their lives sick and suffering, how did they have time to write masterpieces? In this review of John Ross' Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the Great Writer, I aim to find out.
Is Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice the greatest love story ever told? I think not.
Pride and Prejudice is Austen's most famous novel. Reread it and you may find that, like Elizabeth, you never knew yourself.