I’m reading “Pride and prejudice” and I’m strangely enjoying it. I like the characters and the story, I’m really hooked with the book, but I don’t really know why it is so interesting and how Austen makes me feel interested in a book that, maybe just in the surface, is so mundane.
In the past, I also read “Sense and sensibility” for University and I also enjoyed it very much.
How do you think Austen makes this? How does she make a realistic and simple book so interesting in its story and its characters?
Echoing what a couple others here have said: Jane Austen was a keen observer of human interaction, and likely took pleasure in doing so and then taking the best (worst?) of what she saw to reflect it back at the society of her day in her books. And she didn’t shy away from some characterizations that might have been mean (if not at least impertinent) that may not have been done by other contemporaries.