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Jane Austen Selected Letters (Oxford World’s Classics) – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Letters, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 31 May 2009 |

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.” Jane Austen, 24 December 1798  Jane Austen’s personal correspondence has stirred up controversy since her untimely death in 1817 at age 41. The next year her brother Henry Austen wrote in the ‘Biographical [...]

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The Sunday Salon: Preview of Oxford World’s Classics: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: Day 16 Giveaway

Posted in Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 26 October 2008 | 14 Comments »

Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Reflection brought only regret, and anticipation terror. How often did she wish to “steal the lark’s wing, and mount the swiftest gale,” that Languedoc and repose might [...]

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