[HN Gopher] Wild Child: On Jane Austen
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       Wild Child: On Jane Austen
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 58 points
       Date   : 2022-01-13 00:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | yeetaccount4 wrote:
       | I didn't understand what 'classic' meant until I read Jane
       | Austen, her stuff still feels fresh today. If you haven't read
       | Pride and Prejudice, I highly recommend it - there's a lot of
       | perspective to be gained about people there that's relevant
       | today.
        
         | _hzw wrote:
         | I only start reading Jane Austen two years ago, right after my
         | divorce. A line from Pride and Prejudice hit me real hard and
         | made me understand why my marriage failed. It is at the end of
         | the novel, said by Mr Bennet to Lizzy: "My child, let me not
         | have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in
         | life."
        
         | cproctor wrote:
         | And Henry James!
        
         | CalChris wrote:
         | _P+P_ is rollicking fun and all the _P+P_ movies are rollicking
         | fun. I do however, prefer _Persuasion_. And I 'll admit that I
         | didn't spot that _Clueless_ (which was awesome) was based on
         | _Emma_ until I heard something on NPR. I just remember thinking
         | at the time, damn this script is tight for a teen movie.
         | 
         | If you like _P+P_ then _A Room With A View_ , EM Forster, is a
         | scream from start to finish. (Well, not) every chapter is
         | titled _X Lies To Y_.
        
         | whalesalad wrote:
         | Unfortunately all of these novels were ruined for me by high
         | school English class.
        
           | CalChris wrote:
           | If you need to forget a bad HS English class, and most of us
           | do, you might watch some of the excellent movies made from
           | the Austen novels. _Pride and Prejudice_ has been made at
           | least 17 times including an excellent Bollywood version and a
           | less excellent zombie movie. _Emma_ has _Clueless_. These
           | movies are seriously a lot of fun. Then if you really like
           | the movie, you can go back to the books with the movie in
           | mind rather than high school.
        
             | yesenadam wrote:
             | I thought _Pride and Prejudice and Zombies_ was absolutely
             | excellent. It sounds like maybe you haven 't seen it.
             | 
             | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374989/
        
       | danielvf wrote:
       | It is much more fun to read the teenaged Jane Austen's "History
       | of England" than to read yet an another article by yet another
       | scholar talking about Jane Austin.
       | 
       | It begins:
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       | "HENRY the 4th ascended the throne of England much to his own
       | satisfaction in the year 1399, after having prevailed on his
       | cousin and predecessor Richard the 2nd, to resign it to him, and
       | to retire for the rest of his life to Pomfret Castle, where he
       | happened to be murdered..."
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       | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Love_and_Freindship_and_other...
        
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         | billfruit wrote:
         | Also Dickens' "A Child's History of England", surprisingly
         | good, where he goes over most of it with a childlike glee.
        
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