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?
THIS. It’s weirder that OP is so shocked that they like Austen’s work than anything. These books are good enough to be beloved a century later, why does OP think it’s ‘strange’ that they enjoy such classic, loved novels? It low key smacks of an edge of “wow I can’t believe this girly thing is actually good! Who knew! (Besides the millions of people that love the books enough to keep them and their adaptations popular, or the many lit courses that include them for study).”