Today, I’m the guest blogger on At Home With Books as part of Alyce’s new Best and Worst series. I’m taking on the works of my favorite author, Jane Austen. However, I just can’t bring myself to think of Austen having a “worst” novel…just one I don’t like as much as the others.
What are my favorite and least favorite Austen works? Click here to find out! And feel free to let me know what your “best and worst” Austen novels are!
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LOl, can’t wait to see this one.
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I’m sure you know what I picked! 😉
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I’m going to check it out.
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Thanks!
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Thanks for doing the guest post Anna!
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You’re welcome! It was a lot of fun!
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Cool! I’m so looking forward to this series … and how great that you are doing Austen!
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It is a fun series. I don’t think I’m qualified to talk about any other author. 😉
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I loved your post over at Alyce’s blog! I hope you’re really enjoying Emma, my favorite JA!
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Thanks! Haven’t had time to read it lately, but I’m about a quarter of the way through and am enjoying it so far.
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I read your post at the other blog. I’ve read all six of Austen’s novels (though I still want to read the juvenilia, I know it won’t be as good) and I’d say Persuasion is my favorite as well, and Emma is my least favorite. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Mansfield Park the first time I read it, but the second time I read it, I connected with Fanny a lot more and I also saw the sensible buildup between Fanny and Edmund.
I think you have to think of Fanny as more like Anne, but with a couple of important differences 1) She’s younger, more impressionable and easily controlled by adults, therefore less sure of herself and 2) She’s grown up on charity, so she’s raised thinking of herself as worthless and how endlessly grateful she has got to be to her relatives. Fanny, like Anne, is not essentially a rebel, and once you get past that, that actually makes her more interesting and complex.
While it seems like Edmund’s all obsessed with Mary Crawford, Fanny and Edmund do have a lot of cozy talks and it’s very clear their values are aligned throughout the book, so they make a lot of sense together.
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You make some good points about Mansfield Park. It’ll give me something to think about when I re-read it.
I hope you read the juvenilia. Love and Freindship was hilarious!
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I need to read them all before I can answer that question!! 😀
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🙂
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Headin’ over. . . .
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Thanks, Suko!
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Lol, well I did diss MP at Alyce’s blog. But then again that mostly comes these days from this horrid BBc adapatation i watched
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I’ve only seen one MP adaptation, the Masterpiece Theater version with Billie Piper. It was okay, not great.
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Loved the post. I still need to read Mansfield Park, but I wasn’t a big fan of Emma.
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I keep hearing that MP and Emma are people’s least favorites.
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