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Well, it's either that or you go super-small and get into the innermost depths of the human heart. Like Austen did, like Joyce did, like I guess Dostoevsky did. But did any of the popular American writers do that, either?

It's funny how the thing almost everybody reads from Austen is Pride & Prejudice, when I'd argue it's one of her weaker novels. She definitely "levels up" in her last three books, compared to her first three.

In particular I wonder why Emma's not more popular. It's the superior book, and for the women readers I think it has the superior Austen hero. Mr. Knightley is even more dashing and formidable of a figure than Mr. Darcy.