http://debatethisbook.com/2010/03/01/why-jane-austen-is-the-best-novelist-of-our-time/ Random House Academic News and Author Essays Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:17:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://debatethisbook.com/2010/03/01/why-jane-austen-is-the-best-novelist-of-our-time/#comment-277 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:26:05 +0000 http://debatethisbook.com/?p=243#comment-277 The truly sad thing about Austen was the terrible aridity of her actual life. It may well be that her books served as escapist fantasies for her, or at least one hopes that this was the case. Today, of course, December 16, is her birthday.

]]> http://debatethisbook.com/2010/03/01/why-jane-austen-is-the-best-novelist-of-our-time/#comment-255 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:11:20 +0000 http://debatethisbook.com/?p=243#comment-255 “We continute to read her” and “We allow ourselves to be changed” can apply to other long prose authors in the Western tradition since the 18th century (I think of Tolstoy and Dostoievsky, for example), but I agree Austen is one of the greats, and Carson’s essay certainly lists good reasons for saying so!

]]> http://debatethisbook.com/2010/03/01/why-jane-austen-is-the-best-novelist-of-our-time/#comment-187 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:59:36 +0000 http://debatethisbook.com/?p=243#comment-187 My first encounter with Jane Austen came my junior year when I read Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth Bennet is one of the best female characters in all of literature. Now in my 20′s I find that I allude to Austen at times. She will forever be one of my favs.

]]> http://debatethisbook.com/2010/03/01/why-jane-austen-is-the-best-novelist-of-our-time/#comment-173 Wed, 19 May 2010 01:44:26 +0000 http://debatethisbook.com/?p=243#comment-173 I saw this really great post today!

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