„… Mr Bennet was glad to take his guest into the drawing-room again, and, when tea was over, glad to invite him to read aloud to the ladies. Mr Collins readily assented, and a book was produced; but on beholding it (for every thing announced it to be from a circulating library,) he started back, and begging pardon, protested that he never read novels.“

Pride and Prejudice
I,14
Jane Austen