Anghraine

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Usually, Austen takes painstaking care to fit the pieces of her puzzles together seamlessly. Pride and Prejudice, in particular, is a miracle of internal consistency. To all appearances, the cast of over twenty differing personalities achieve a suspiciously neat conclusion by acting, and being, perfectly “in-character” as they pursue their own ends. On the surface, it looks merely fortuitous; any attempt to deconstruct the shiny, sparkly, straightforward plot quickly demonstrates otherwise. It is put together very, very well.

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