Pride and Prejudice discussion

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How interesting! Thanks for sharing

I take some of these with a pinch of salt, a little bit of ego throwing, resentment towards a best seller maybe. Some I think are a bit out of context. Hate is always such a strong word.

Virginia Woolf admired and was influenced by Henry James. She had a complex relationship with Ulysses. D.H. Lawrence championed Moby Dick & Melville, and wrote a great essay about both. Ernie & Faulkner always seemed harmless to me, and no doubt they admired each other beyond that tiff.

Fitzgerald said some pretty nasty things about Steinbeck, I'm surprised that one is never brought up in these "literary insults" compilations. He said in a letter that Steinbeck was a "cheap blatant imitation of D.H. Lawrence. A book club return of the public to its own vomit."

It's interesting what Nabokov says about Hemingway and Dostoevsky, though he was a bit harsh. But I always thought Dostoevsky is overrated.

I know from personal experience that Judith Merrill had no use for the works of fellow SF author E.E. "Doc" Smith but I don't know if she had any feelings about him personally.

Funny.

The relationship between Fitzgerald and Hemingway became very strained later when H's books started selling better than F's. Also, H seems to have tried something with Zelda, which F hated.