This book is so fast-paced compared to her other novels. I felt like I was being rushed from one scene to the next, with characters almost tripping over each other as they were whisked in and out of the narrative. Given that this book was written at the end of Austen's life, when she was quite ill, I wonder if this book was still a working draft, and she meant to add more to it. That's pure speculation, of course, but the book feels a bit unpolished to me.
Perhaps she was aware that she didn't have much time, too, so she rushed where she might otherwise have taken things slowly?
I noticed too that it was quite different to her earlier books. I must read them all again.
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Perhaps she was aware that she didn't have much time, too, so she rushed where she might otherwise have taken things slowly?
I noticed too that it was quite different to her earlier books. I must read them all again.
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