Crime writer PD James is to publish a novel that puts murder at the heart of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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The 200th anniversary of the first publication of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

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First published by Thomas Egerton in 1813, Pride and Prejudice was Jane Austen's second novel.

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The book's bicentenary is being marked throughout the year with a series of events, starting with an international "Pride and Prejudice Readathon" at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath on Monday, and including exhibitions and an outdoor theater production in London.

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Set six years after Pride and Prejudice ends, the book features Jane Austen's best-known characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, and combines "classic period drama" with a suspenseful mystery plot.

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Vincent Kartheiser, who plays the malcontent Pete Campbell on AMC's "Mad Men, " will star this summer in a new Guthrie production of "Pride and Prejudice" as the brooding hero of Jane Austen's most famous novel.

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