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?
Thank you for this explanation. Somehow I didn’t realize Jane Austen’s writing was such “high context”. As a programmer who (sadly) primarily reads dry non-fiction and almost exclusively communicates in a “low context” manner, understanding the hidden depth and nuance of her writing is a delightful surprise.