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?
Maybe because she wasn’t pumping them out like every two or three months. And that thanks to the era, they are refreshingly clean. As in no hopping in bed as soon as a couple caught each other’s eyes like the bodice rippers are in many ways. She took time to write.
Walter Scott noted Austen’s “resistance to the trashy sensationalism of much of modern fiction—‘the ephemeral productions which supply the regular demand of watering places and circulating libraries’”.