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“Jane Austen’s purpose is to illustrate this very Aristotelian virtue of prudence: that you’ve got to look out for your interests, you mustn’t just give in to passion.” Read more...
Edward Skidelsky, Philosopher
“As I kept rereading it, I started to realise that it is actually a very dark novel, probably the darkest of Jane Austen’s novels….. because of the very real sense of financial danger which hovers around the characters, or at least the characters one likes. “ Read more...
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Literary Scholar