Jane Austen books
By teka44
@teka44 (3420)
Brazil
April 30, 2008 1:26pm CST
I love the Jane Austen's books. Not only the stories but the characters she created. It is incredible but we can find the same kind of people in ours days. I think that she succeded at a understanding of human feature. What do you think?
3 responses
@duck2day (316)
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7 May 08
Yes, she really did have a great sense of human nature and in a sense, that never really changes so her books r kinda timeless. She sees things in people's habits and actions that are very clever and often she's very cynical and sarcastic in her humour, which is very clever really. I love her books, not quite read them all though.
I think Mansfield Park, more than her other books, gives a great insight into people and how they work, though northanger abbey does it to a certain extent as well.
She really is a great author and it's a shame people have bad conetations about her books because there turn of the 19th century!Oh well, they may learn like i did! LOL
@dodo19 (47317)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
5 Sep 08
I have to agree that Jane Austen's novels do have that sense of timelessness, much like Shakespeare's plays. Jane Austen gives us an insight on life in her days, which is something that I enjoy both seeing on the big screen or while reading her novels. The plots of her stories are experiences that any of us can experience, no matter what social class, or time period. And she gives us characters that we can all relate to, on different levels. There are even some moments in her novels that we sense that there is more than simply what we see or read. It is great fun to read.
@tikaldema23 (96)
• Guatemala
12 Jun 08
I love Austen's books as well. She created masterful characters and great stories around them. I agree with the othe comment (duck2day) that the books do feel timeless. You can read them once and again and they still feel right. When I read them I always feel like I should have been born in that time. When being a lady ment you had to learn music instruments, read, study, draw, sow, and improve your mind. Especially, I would have loved what all of Jane Austen's heroine's loved: to walk in the meadows for miles and miles just thinking about everything, excersising and being in contact with nature. I think Austen did a terrific job improvinf literature in general, and I think many people would have loved to see more novels by her.
@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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30 Apr 08
I adore Jane Austen's books. I've read them all and can re-read them again and again like old friends. My favourite is Sense and Sensibility. I think she had a great understanding of human nature and also a wicked sense of humour!
@teka44 (3420)
• Brazil
30 Apr 08
I agree with you. I can't read all the Jane Austen's books because here in my country they don't translate they all, only Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Pride and Prejudice. But I keep trying to find any translate of the others books of her. I don't know English this much to try to read it in English.
I'm glad to find another fan of Jane Austen, seem that here she don't have many fans. Thank for your response.
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@Phaedra_Scythe (3325)
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1 May 08
That's such a shame. I really hope you manage to find translations of her other books soon. Persuasion is a really popular one, you'd think it would be available. It's rather bad that they haven't translated all her books already.
@sunita64 (6469)
• India
9 Jul 08
I have complete collection of Jane Austen's and amongst that I really liked Pride and Prejudice and even others are also worth reading. You are absolutely right that her characters are very real and you can always find some of characters around you. That is the beauty of her work.
