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“A postmodern confection [that’s] very, very funny.”
— New York Times
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“Both quirky and hilarious.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“A merry comedy of pride, prejudice, and duplicity…Silly, sly, eccentric characters and brisk chatter make for a diverting romp.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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"A merry comedy of pride, prejudice, and duplicity.... Silly, sly, eccentric characters and brisk chatter make for a diverting romp.
— Kirkus Reviews
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"Lady Susan is finally getting some long overdue respect.
— Alexandra Alter,New York Times
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"Witty and delightful.
— BookPage
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A postmodern confection [that's] very, very funny.
— Penelope Green, New York Times
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In the ever-booming Austen spinoff industry, where paeans to Mr. Darcy are the norm, rewriting a work of the master's in the guise of one of her detractors makes for an eccentrically cheeky tribute.
— Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker
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"Both quirky and hilarious.
— Publishers Weekly
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"Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked.
— Julia Felsenthal, Vogue
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"Show[s] a deep familiarity with [Austen's] life, work, and times.
— Laura Miller,Slate
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"Wickedly funny.
— Holly Parmalee, Serendipity
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Stillman has a fine eye for social niceties.
— Library Journal, Editor's Pick
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"If you like your Austen subversive, cruel, funny and outrageous, then you will love Stillman's Love & Friendship.
— Paula Byrne, The Times (UK)
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"One of the classiest book-to-movie novelizations that's ever existed.
— Rebecca Pahle, Film Journal International
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"A racy delight.
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
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[A] fast, precise, and giddily dialectical costume romp.... Stillman captures the exquisite eroticism of high-society manners.
— Richard Brody, New Yorker
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Delightfully droll.... Stillman so effortlessly, elegantly bridges the gap between his conniving aristocrats and Austen's that it's difficult to say where one's sensibility ends and the other's begins.
— Kyle Smith, New York Post
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Flat-out hilarious -- find me a funnier screen stab at Austen, and I'm tempted to offer your money back personally.
— Tim Robey, Telegraph
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A supremely elegant and delicately filigreed adaptation of Jane Austen's epistolary novella Lady Susan.
— Justin Chang, Variety
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The perfect marriage between Stillman's absurdist wit and Austen's period manners.
— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline
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So clever in its repartee.
— Flavorwire