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imoldfashioned said:I hang my head in shame while I admit that I've never read any of Austen's novels. I tried P&P ages ago and I just couldn't get into it--I should try again. I have a friend that won't stop going on about how wonderful Persuasion is so maybe I should give that one a go? Which are your favorites?
I'm all over the map with classic British Lit--for instance I love the Brontes but David Copperfield is one of the two times in my life I ever bought Cliff Notes--reading that book was like banging my head against a brick wall, I just hated it (the second book that drove me into the arms of Cliff was Moby Dick btw).
Austen and G. Eliot go together for me, although I've put Daniel Deronda
down several times, love Persuasion, and E's Silas Marner is
a philosophic moral that intrigues me as much as E does. Emily is
my favorite Bronte, her poetry and Wuthering Heights captivate.
Dickens I have spared with, and Melville I deeply admire.
Moby Dick is too often dismissed on American campi.
...and tell Cliff for me that he's a lucky guy.