Sunday, July 5, 2009

Good Romance is...

Any of Jane Austen's works. They are: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park.

Picking one of them up has proven more educational than 5 years worth of secondary school English Language, although admittedly that isn't much of a compliment, with the way they teach the subject nowadays. Much better to say that her work has been described as the Parthenon of fiction. So drop Twilight and start on one of these, because Twilight will never hope to equal the achievement of having been described thus.

I will not review any of them for fear of not doing them justice. I will simply vouch for their being works of genius, and entreat you to read for yourself.

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