Quote:
Mark Twain on Jane Austen
“I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice'; I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” -- Letter to Joseph Twitchell (Sept. 13, 1898)
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"Everytime" he reads 'Pride and Predjuice'? Why would he keep reading that book if he really hated it? Is it possible that this specific quote was taken out of context somehow and meant to be humorous?