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Review from 2016
For my last Classics Corner post, I chose to listen to and review a very new recording by one of my favourite narrators. I confess that when it comes to Jane Austen’s novels, I have an A team and a B team. The A team consists of Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, and the B team of Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey. Mansfield Park kind of hovers between the two – it’s a wonderful book but the heroine is difficult to like and understand for much of it, which can ma ...more
For my last Classics Corner post, I chose to listen to and review a very new recording by one of my favourite narrators. I confess that when it comes to Jane Austen’s novels, I have an A team and a B team. The A team consists of Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, and the B team of Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey. Mansfield Park kind of hovers between the two – it’s a wonderful book but the heroine is difficult to like and understand for much of it, which can ma ...more
A great book. A tough book.
Sad.
A great insight into self indulgence and self control.
Restraint and complete lack of it.
The dishonesty of modesty and the, almost cruel, sincerity of bluntness.
Kindness and warm hearts.
Sad.
A great insight into self indulgence and self control.
Restraint and complete lack of it.
The dishonesty of modesty and the, almost cruel, sincerity of bluntness.
Kindness and warm hearts.
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