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Title: Not Jane Austen at her 5 Star Best...but for the devotee... one sees the artist growing....
Review: This book reminded me of all the things I like about Jane Austen, so I am reading every novel she wrote. Northanger Abbey is weak in ways I don't expect Austen to be weak, but for the person who seeks to watch her art in progress, this is an excellent example of the author learning her way toward her great masterpieces.You consequently will not be as swept off your feet, but you will learn a great deal about Austen's development as a unique and incomparable author in her time and place.I for one am always watching the way she develops her main female protagonist...giving her a mind in a day and age when women were seldom expected to have a mind, much less put it to any good use!I learned from this book...and for me that made the reading of it well worth it.
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