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  • Still good despite its flaws

  • I consider this the weakest of Austen's books. The heroine Catherine got on my nerves because she allowed herself to be manipulated. She was very naive, so I could not sympathize or relate to her. It's well written, but I find the characters unlikeable and the plot less than gripping. So why did I g ... Continue

    I consider this the weakest of Austen's books. The heroine Catherine got on my nerves because she allowed herself to be manipulated. She was very naive, so I could not sympathize or relate to her. It's well written, but I find the characters unlikeable and the plot less than gripping. So why did I give it 3 stars? Because Jane Austen creates a cast of characters with serious flaws (I absolutely loathed the Thorpes). She perfectly captured the superficial society of Bath and I have to applaud that!

    

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• ― MoirneStark said on Oct 1, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • All Austen is five star work. I'm only rating in comparison to how I rank them in relation to each other.

    

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Jane Austen (1775-1817) is considered by many scholars to be the first great woman novelist. Her novels revolve around people, not events or coincidences. Miss Austen sets her novels in the upper middle class English country which was her own environment.

Her novels have increased in stature over time. Her skills of writing, including a dry humor and a witty elegance of expression have attracted generations to her work.

Miss Austen completed six novels and part of a seventh, "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and the partial "Lady Susan". Quiet Vision publishes all seven.

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