None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the...
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Audrey Rouget:
What Jane Austen novels have you read? Tom Townsend:
None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author
What Jane Austen novels have you read? Tom Townsend:
None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author
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What Jane Austen novels have you read
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None I don't read novels
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I prefer good literary criticism
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That way you get both the novelist's ideas as well as the critic's thinking
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With fiction I can never forget that none of it ever really happened
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that it's all just made up by the author
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Movie Summary
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
