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Spectator competition winners: Charles Dickens pours scorn on Pride &amp; Prejudice

4 November 2023

9:00 AM

4 November 2023

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3323 you were invited to submit an extract from a book review written by a well-known author which trashes a work by another well-known author that is generally deemed to be a classic.

Virginia Woolf took a dim view of Ulysses. In a 1922 diary entry, she wrote: ‘I finished Ulysses and think it a misfire… The book is diffuse.

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