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“What Claudia Johnson says, in a really beautiful way, is that Austen sympathises with the philosophy of many of the revolutionary writers of her own time – Mary Wollstonecraft among them – but that instead of depoliticising their arguments in her fiction, Austen de-polemicises them.” Read more...
Devoney Looser, Literary Scholar
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A Walk in the Woods
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
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At Night All Blood Is Black
by David Diop, translated by Anna Moschovakis