Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
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PRIDE. and PREJUDICE
by Jane Austen,
with a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
PREFACE.
Walt Whitman has somewhere a fine and just distinction between “loving by allowance” and “loving with personal love.” This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There is much more difference as to their best work than in the case of those others who are loved “by allowance” by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and proper thing to love them. And in the sect--fairly large and yet unusually choice--of Austenians…
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