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Emma, chapters 4-6
We return to Hartfield to find Harriet Smith not only a regular visitor to the house, but totally BFF’s with Emma. Though what Emma requires of a friend is maybe a tad different from you and me.
Emma, chapters 1-3
Jane Austen’s fourth novel, Emma, is arguably as beloved as her second, Pride and Prejudice; in fact Aust
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Mansfield Park, chapters 34-36
As I write this, Hurricane Irene is hammering the east coast, providing the obvious (if rather prosaic) analogy for the state in which we find Fanny Price: deluged on all sides by encouragement, expectations, and exhortations that she marry Henry Crawford, who has, in a fit of romantic fervor bordering on (if not edging into) flat-out insanity, pledged her his troth.
Mansfield Park, chapters 31-33
We now come to a stretch of the narrative that’s actually difficult to read without cringing.
Mansfield Park, chapters 28-30
And so we come to the night of the ball…and we re-settle ourselves in our seats, because we’ve learned by now that when Austen brings all her characters together for these great occasions, she’s going to treat us to a series of riotously funny set pieces. But, alas, it doesn’t work out that way this time, for a number of reasons. First, Austen has moved the majority of her most entertaining boors offstage (Tom, the Rushworths, Mr. Yates), and with the exception of Mrs.
Announcing: Robert Rodi Essentials
In 1992 my first novel was published. Fag Hag told the story of a big, flamboyant girl with a big, obsessive crush on a handsome gay artist—and of the increasingly dangerous, even criminal lengths to which she went to maintain her stranglehold over him.
Mansfield Park, chapters 25-27
Last time we saw the addition of William Price to the clan at Mansfield, and the return of Henry Crawford to the pack at the Parsonage. The presence of these good-humored young bucks provides just the added sense of occasion required for Sir Thomas to lower his own personal Homeland Security Alert from orange to mellow yellow, resulting in his “more than toleration” of increasing face-time with his neighbors.
