I was actually looking for numbers I was looking for you know incomes wages salaries prices if you really don't know your topic well you will be revealed. Jane Austen is going giving us reasonable numbers because otherwise people at that time would have found that quite extraordinary very wrong so that's was my argument and I was actually into the numbers. The level of commercialization and the fact of capitalism has been much greater in obviously 19th century Europe than it was in more agricultural societies like Russia or Africa or Asia and so onSo this is by the way I was not reading much I'm not reading much fiction these days but I took a book that I read before which is also very revealing it's called

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