Rejecting Jane article chronicles the fact that all but one of the publishers and agents failed to recognise her works, including Penguin Books and J. K. Rowling's publisher Bloomsbury, with the vast majority rejecting out of hand this apparent attempt by one of the world’s greatest known authors to gain a publishing deal. This despite the fact that one of the most famous opening lines in English literature, "Pride and Prejudice"’s "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" was left intact. On its publication the article
For Want of a Nail (novel) two hundred years' worth of people, places, economics, finance, technology, politics and war was spelled out. Despite being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the book gained little notice from Sobel's fellow historians. Alternate history was considered a subgenre of science fiction, so it was from fans of science fiction that the book gained its initial audience, and "For Want of a Nail" gained the status of a classic work of alternate history. For Want of a Nail (novel) For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga is an alternate history novel published in 1973 by the American