Goodreads asked Christopher New:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Christopher New There are a good many fictional worlds I wouldn't want to go to -1984 or Brave New World, for instance, but still more that I wouldn't mind visiting, so a choice is difficult and would probably vary according to how I felt at any particular time. Well, today at any rate I would choose the world of Pride and Prejudice, perhaps because it's Jane Austen's year (she died in 1817). I'm not sure what I would do there -just watch and listen, I expect. I would love to hear the conversations between Elizabeth and Darcy again and to watch and hear what they said and did that Jane Austen didn't tell us about...And I'd like to see the life below stairs, which scarcely features in the novel.

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