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anghraineAn anon asked:
I feel like you've probably been asked this before, but which Austen novel do you most recommend? (I've read p&p and really loved it!)
I replied:
My favorite after P&P is Mansfield Park, but a lot of people bounce pretty hard off of it. It’s longer, more sober, much less classically romantic (I ship the heroine and her rival muuuuch more than the main canon couple), and often considered morally messy.
If that’s not your thing, you might want to try Persuasion. It was written towards the end of Austen’s life in the later 1810s, whereas P&P was first written in the mid-1790s, so it’s very different in some ways. It definitely engages with a changing world where P&P really belongs to an earlier era. But it’s interesting, and IMO very touching in its own right.
heckofabecca said:
my 3 favs <3
I feel like you've probably been asked this before, but which Austen novel do you most recommend? (I've read p&p and really loved it!)
I replied:
My favorite after P&P is Mansfield Park, but a lot of people bounce pretty hard off of it. It’s longer, more sober, much less classically romantic (I ship the heroine and her rival muuuuch more than the main canon couple), and often considered morally messy.
If that’s not your thing, you might want to try Persuasion. It was written towards the end of Austen’s life in the later 1810s, whereas P&P was first written in the mid-1790s, so it’s very different in some ways. It definitely engages with a changing world where P&P really belongs to an earlier era. But it’s interesting, and IMO very touching in its own right.
heckofabecca said:my 3 favs <3