Margaret C. Sullivan
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Sense and Sensibility
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The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
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Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart
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Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers
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There Must Be Murder
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The Joy of Jane: Thoughts on the First 200 Years of Austen's Legacy
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I should be mad about how Backman manipulates the readers' emotions, but he's not really doing that. Ove's story is real in its joy and sorrow and humor and that's what makes you feel it so deeply. And there's just enough crazy h ...more "
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I liked the protagonist, Emira, but the antagonist (I guess?), Alix, was incredibly unpleasant and the whole book was a cringefest and I wasn't in the mood for it. It's a good book and well -written but not for me. It was recommended to be as a book a ...more |
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“How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and will live happily ever after, no matter what travails life might throw in their path, because Jane Austen said they will, and that's that? How to describe the exhilaration of being caught up in an unknown but glamorous world of balls and gowns and rides in open carriages with handsome young men? How to explain that the best part of Jane Austen's world is that sudden recognition that the characters are just like you?”
― The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
― The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
“...we may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.”
― The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
― The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
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“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of the barriers which society gives to virtue.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park

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