The unbearable Mr Darcy

Wed, 10 September 2025

12:07

Colin Firth as Mr Darcy

Mostly miserable and even "unforgivably cruel", Jane Austen's famous romantic hero is not what he seems, writes the author Sebastian Faulks, in an exclusive extract from the Folio Society, to mark the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth.

Read the column here.

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