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It is a truth universally acknowledged that 99.999% of Times readers have never read Jane Austen.

SUSAN J. GRODSKY

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But at least one Times writer, Ruth Reichl, has. Her lead sentence last Sunday aped Austen’s opening sentence in “Pride and Prejudice”: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”