Persuasion
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Book Review - Austin - The Most Extraordinary Scene
It is the most extraordinary scene. It's this simultaneous orchestration of someone writing to people talking, noises everybody in this simultaneous present intensified to the writing of this letter. We haven't spent long with the less endearing character. There are quite a number of them. As ever with Austin, they're very beautifully differentiated. My least favourite character is her older sister Elizabeth, who is the most sterile, status-obsessed, uninteresting character. So she's my least favourite. William Elliott is just a conventional villain. He's cautious on the surface and a blackguard underneath. But Elizabeth is an interesting kind of villain. And I mean, just switch for a little more. Can you
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