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Two hundred years ago today, Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice<\/i>, the classic tale of Elizabeth Bennett. Though the book has now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, Austen (above) received \u00a3110 for the copyright from publisher T. Egerton, according to the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n While Pride and Prejudice<\/i> was published in 1813, just four years before Austen\u2019s death, she lives on in TED Talks. Here, five speakers who\u2019ve mentioned Austen on stage:<\/p>\n\n
\n\u201c<\/b>And at the end of my talk, you would all stand up\u00a0and you would go, \u2018Thank you Plato, thank you Shakespeare, thank you Jane Austen.\u2019”
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\n\u201c<\/b>Consider Citizen Kane<\/i> as valuable as\u00a0Jane\u00a0Austen. Agree that Boyz n the Hood<\/i> is like Tennyson.\u201d
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\n<\/b>\u201cSo they’ve got these furry 160-pound dogs — all look like velociraptors, all named after\u00a0Jane Austen\u00a0characters.\u201d
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\n<\/b>\u201cA stunning match-winning goal\u00a0in a World Cup soccer match,\u00a0Van Gogh’s \u2018Starry Night,\u2019\u00a0a Jane Austen novel,\u00a0Fred Astaire dancing across the screen.\u201d
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\n<\/a><\/b>“You may think you know what is going on\u00a0in that Jane Austen novel –\u00a0that is, until your first encounter\u00a0with postmodern deconstructionism.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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