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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and am finding myself loving the classics right now, completely. It's like an escape from the modern world into a simpler, gentler time.
The one issue I have with this book is that there is tension throughout, and the reader keenly feels the discomfort of the heroine. We are pulling for her all the way, and she is surrounded by obstacles of all sorts. The resolution, however, comes so late in the novel that we don't really get the chance to enjoy it. I wish she'd ...more
The one issue I have with this book is that there is tension throughout, and the reader keenly feels the discomfort of the heroine. We are pulling for her all the way, and she is surrounded by obstacles of all sorts. The resolution, however, comes so late in the novel that we don't really get the chance to enjoy it. I wish she'd ...more
I thought it would be love at first sight. It wasn't it.
Jane Austen is everything contemporary America is not. Jane Austen has no real plot points; no buildings explode, and no diabolical schemes to control the world appear in her stories. But Jane Austen isn't wispy either, no light read, no little summer story, not just a bit of romantic fluff.
Jane Austen is completely unexpected. A Jane Austen book is a solid two hundred pages of people in beautiful but uncomfortable clothing, standing around ...more
Jane Austen is everything contemporary America is not. Jane Austen has no real plot points; no buildings explode, and no diabolical schemes to control the world appear in her stories. But Jane Austen isn't wispy either, no light read, no little summer story, not just a bit of romantic fluff.
Jane Austen is completely unexpected. A Jane Austen book is a solid two hundred pages of people in beautiful but uncomfortable clothing, standing around ...more
Poor Anne Elliot! She was in love with Frederick Wentworth when she was very young, only nineteen, but a well-meaning family friend advised her to break off the relationship. She broke Fred's heart. Now, years later she's in her late twenties and by fate she's forced into social situations with this young man who now is courting one (or both?) of her sister's sister-in-laws, and they are totally infatuated with him. Not a comfortable situation for Anne.
Jane Austen puts this poor character throug ...more
Jane Austen puts this poor character throug ...more
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