"I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers."
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Today in Jane
More of the usual musings on Jane's enduring popularity from the New Yorker's Book Bench blog. It includes a great EM Forster quote, which I am reprinting in full here:
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From what I gather, Austen is underrated. I did look through the selection in B&N last week, but there were annotated versions, which scared me off. Where do I start?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Pride and Prejudice. Most definitely. There's no other way to go.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
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