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The idea for Irish author Sally Rooney's fourth novel, Intermezzo (Faber & Faber, 2024), came during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Rooney observed her husband playing online chess, and she herself became fascinated with the "mathematical elegance"...

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's first novel, published in 1813. Some scholars also consider it one of her most mature novels.

Austen began writing Pride and Prejudice under the title First Impressions in 1796, at the age of twenty-one. She...