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Do Overdue: Ep 577 - Persuasion, by Jane Austen

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Mark Twain's Blockbuster

Mark Twain liked to bag on Jane Austen as a way to demonstrate the superiority of like the emerging American literature scene over English literature. This book is, it's unique in a lot of ways among her works. It is sort of her most considered or most mature novel. She wrote this in like two or three years and was not a thing that she started writing previously 10 or 15 years before then went back to.

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