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Why Jane Austen is THE Best Novelist of Our Time

by Susannah Carson, author of  A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (Random House, 2009). “Can Jane Austen’s novels be considered the best novels of our time?” “Why yes,” I responded, with the bewildered … Continue reading

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Why do YOU read Jane Austen?

For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen … Continue reading

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