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Emma
by Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among individuals in those locations consisting of "3 or 4 families in a country village." The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.
grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age. Mr. Martin is now awkward and abrupt; what will he be at Mr. Weston’s time of life?” “There is no saying, indeed,” replied Harriet rather solemnly. “But there may be pretty good guessing. He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.” “Will he, indeed? That will be very bad.” “How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the circumstance of his forgetting to inquire for the book you recommended. He was a great deal too full of the market to think of any thing else—which is just as it should be, for a thriving man. What has he to do with books? And I have no doubt that he _will_ thrive, and be a very rich man in time—and his being illiterate and coarse need not disturb _us_.” “I wonder he did not remember the book”—was all Harriet’s answer, and
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Virginia Woolf
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Cranford
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Marcel Proust
Swann's Way
Louisa May Alcott
Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag Vol. 1
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Victoria Benedictsson
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August Strindberg
Röda Rummet
Marcel Proust
Within a Budding Grove
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Hjalmar Söderberg
Förvillelser
August Strindberg
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
– Virginia Woolf
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– Gustave Flaubert
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