Sweet Jane
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I see very little discussion about England's Jane on here. Emma is masterfully crafted. Austen is one of the greatest English novelists of all time, I would even put her above Dickens. This thread is for Austenites and those who want to know about Austen.
>Austen as a moral philosopher can also be discussed.
Mansfield Park is her best work by far
>>7493913
too incesty 4 me
why is she so underrated on /lit/?
>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
The only book I can think of where literally the first line made me drop it.
i have only recently read Pride and Prejudice and this bitch drops semicolons like they're about to expire. sentences with more clauses than a mall santa training session. is this typical of the time period of her work or was she a particular crafter of convoluted prose?
>>7493895
>I would even put her above Dickens
I enjoyed her books more than Dickens', but that's my opinion as a non-native speaker - I find Dickens' prose hard to get used to and a bit dry, while I find Austen's more expressive and easier to get used to.
>>7495037
Are you serious? Do you even read?
>>7493913
I agree (but it's not even that good).
Twain was mostly right about Austen.
>>7495050
yes, although my experience with early 1800s writing standards is not extensive. it's not that i couldn't understand what was written it was just that i would read some sentences and then think "that really should have been 3 sentences" or "my, was that a convoluted way to phrase things"
>>7495070
>"my, was that a convoluted way to phrase things"
That's how I feel about Pynchon.
