Bookish Matters

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

—Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Thursday, January 17, 2013



a quote from Austen's Northanger Abbey about Mrs Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

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