Posted on 07/18/2017 8:00:54 PM PDT by Borges
Your favorite.
Wow. Doesn’t seem that long ago.
Great docudrama on PBS (yeah, I know) recently about her and her sisters.
I used to teach Persuasion, and went into depth on how the novella was infused with Christian doctrine, from the Christian view of marriage to the nature of Satan. Not something you will read about in any "womyn's studies" today, but it is consistent with Austen's Christian nature.
Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.
Mark Twain
Twain disliked a whole bunch of significant writers. Poe, Henry James.
I like Twain; I love Jane.
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> “Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.” [Mark Twain]
Funny remark, but dumb assessment of the writer herself.
> Dog is man’s best friend... [tag]
“Outside of a dog a book is a man’s best friend, inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” [Groucho Marx]
All heterosexual males are slaves to women, by definition. A few are lucky enough to be blissfully unaware of it, owing to the alluring and deceptive diplomatic skills of the women involved.
I put off reading Austen for a long time, expecting her to be too prim (and too boring :) for my taste. I was suffering from one of the vices mentioned in the title Pride and Prejudice. I was prejudiced against what I considered to be the frills and conventions of upper-class or upper-middle-class British society.
I suppose I suffered from the other vice as well. As a reader of really "deep" books, I was too proud to occupy myself with anything that I thought might be superficial. When I finally did get around to reading her novels -- I've now read all of them -- I was surprised at how much I liked them. In my opinion, few writers can match her wit and insight into human nature.
Besides that wit and insight into human nature, she knows how to tell a love story. That's saying a lot. One of the best novelists ever, in my opinion.
> Family Guy’s take on her; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc3nDZI7UwE
Wish I could unsee that. :-) Now I’ll be hours if not days ridding my mind of that...uh...scent.
'Your examination of Mr Darcy is over, I presume', said Miss Bingley 'and pray what is the result?'
'I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr Darcy has no defect. He owns it himself without disguise'.
'No'--said Darcy, 'I have made no such pretension'. ... 'There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best of education can overcome'.
'And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.'
'And yours', he replied with a smile, 'is willfully to misunderstand them'.
'Do let us have a little music', cried Miss Bingley, tired of a conversation in which she had no share.
I wish I could have written something that good, but then so does everyone else who has ever put pen to paper.
Mrs. jimfree, a PhD historian of the period, has spoken at local and national Jane Austen gatherings.
If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice you might enjoy a miniseries that aired a few years ago. It’s called Lost in Austen and is a quirky, but captivating way of telling the story. I have no idea if it’s on any of the online movie sites. It was on Amazon when I saw it, but that was quite a few years ago.
Thanks for the information. I’m usually interested in checking out anything related to her books.
> If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice...
Yes, I’ve read it twice.
I just took a look and you can still rent the entire miniseries on Amazon for $6.99
It was first aired in 2008.
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