commensurately “I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen’s novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer in both the stories I have read, ‘Persuasion’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ is marriageableness. All that interests in any character introduced is still this one, Has he or she the money to marry with, and conditions conforming? ‘Tis ‘the nympholepsy of a fond despair,’ say, rather, of an English boarding house. Suicide is more respectable.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting Byron with the “nympholepsy of a fond despair” line.
cheap Pregabalin 150mg This is a bit harsh, but calling this dreaming of a good-hearted, misunderstood, gorgeous, single, smouldering nobleman possessed of a thousand-room mansion a “nympholepsy of a fond despair” is utterly priceless.
Just to offer another perspective:
“Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second. But among the writers who have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen.” – Macaulay
And a third:
“When I take up one of Jane Austen’s books, such as ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I feel like a barkeeper entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his liking, and he would probably say so.” – Mark Twain
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