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‘The Nympholepsy of a Fond Despair.’

21-Dec-09

Tak Bai “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 […]