Hi everybody, we wanted to let you know that in partnership with the Fetzer Institute,

we have been able to offer some scholarships for two of our upcoming pilgrimages.

Our Duke by Default pilgrimage, we can offer a $1,500 scholarship and our Harry Potter

and the Prisoner of Azkaban pilgrimage, we can offer $1,000 scholarships.

To find out more, go to readingandwalkingwith.com, we can only do this while supplies last.

We have five spots available on each trip, I hope to see you there.

Go to readingandwalkingwith.com.

We've spent this season asking ourselves the question, why is Pride and Prejudice the

novel that we still press into each other's hands?

We were asking that question in terms of the qualities of the novel, but there are other

components to this unanswerable question as well.

We've talked about some of them, the politics of canon, luck, Austin's lack of clear

biography, but just enough biography.

Part of the reason no doubt is that Pride and Prejudice's longevity is a self-perpetuating

cycle.

The more something is loved, the more attention it gets.

The more attention it gets, the more we all want to read it.

One of the mechanisms of that self-perpetuating cycle around Pride and Prejudice is all of

its adaptations, and the list of them is nearly bottomless.

In just 1995 and 1996, six English-language screen adaptations of Jane Austin's novels

were produced.

Then there are all of the novel adaptations.

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