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Why We Read Jane Austen
2011,2013
“A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”: I would be happy to read a novel that starts like that. Charmed by the sound of the sentence, I would settle for a second one that backed up the generalization, for example like this: “As Sir Eustace Beauregard [or Sir Solomon Goldberg] approached the Bennet establishment, his cousin Francis Peake was galloping across the adjacent fields toward Longbourn.” But I’d be just as pleased to find it going in a different direction, e.g., “Rich Mr. Bingley blushed as he recalled his sister’s voice
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