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My daughter and I have always loved the books of Jane Austin. Of course, the movies are good too. We just recently picked up the movie called "The Jane Austin Book Club". I started reading Mansfield Park.
What are your favorites?

I have just become a Jane Austin fan and so far...I have only read Pride and Prejudice and Emma....I love them both but I LOVE pride and prejudice...I love her writing style....it takes me to a time when the english language was beautiful...where else have you heard someone say "...i am violently in love with you.." and it just meant loving a person with all your heart not in a psyco kinda way...lol....anyway...Pride and Prejudice is my fav so far

Jane Austin is timeless. Her characters describe people you know today but are in costume and set in the late 1700s. Her dialogs are beautiful. What a great understanding she had of people.

I saw that movie at the library yesterday but didn't pick it up. What is it about?

I agree. A lot of the Victorian Era writers you have to really take your time and focus on what is being said because of the big and sometimes just sublte differences in the language usage then compared to now.

Her dialogues are some of the best every written, in my opinion.