{"id":11805,"date":"2013-01-28T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awamipolitics.com\/?p=11805"},"modified":"2013-01-28T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T05:20:12","slug":"pride-and-prejudice-turns-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awamipolitics.com\/pride-and-prejudice-turns-200-11805.html","title":{"rendered":"Pride And Prejudice Turns 200"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On January 128, 2013, Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice will celebrate its bicentenary, i.e. the 200^{th<\/sup> birthday of its first publication. Containing what it perhaps the most well known opening line in English literature (“it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,”) the novel also brought us some of the most beloved and reviled characters in the literary universe, including the arrogant and handsome Mr Darcy, the incisively charming Ms Elizabeth Bennett, the repulsive Mr Collins and the haughty Lady Catherine de Bourgh.<\/p>}