Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
“I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.”
“A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.”