A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, a new collection of literary criticism will be released in November by Random House just in time for holiday purchases for Austen fans. Edited by Susannah Carson and with a foreward written by Harold Bloom, this volume includes opinions by mid-twentieth century critics such as Virginia Woolf and C. S. Lewis as well as thoughts from more contemporary writers like Anna Quindlen, Fay Welden and Jay McInerney. According to a Random House advance press release, "We read, and then reread, our favorite Austen novels to connect with both her world and our own. Because, as A Truth Universally Acknowledged so eloquently demonstrates, the only thing better than reading a Jane Austen novel is finding in our own lives her humor, emotion, and love."
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