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This is my favourite Jane Austen, the last full novel she wrote it demonstrates all her greatest skills of plot, characterisation, conversation, satire, wit and most importantly the understanding and depth of feeling she can create in the briefest of moments between two people.
" I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." ...more
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." ...more
Excellent Jane Austen fare. Good stuff.
I wish my high school English teachers had explained how very funny Jane Austen's works are.
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My favorite Austen book.
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