!!!! "Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig Jane Austen up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” ― Mark Twain
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Replying to @StevenIsserlis
The most interesting question is the one left most in the dark here, namely: why? Why would Samuel Clemens feel this desire? Perhaps envy.
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Replying to @StevenIsserlis
But we Americans are insanely fond of Ms Austen. And Twain's criticisms of other authors (e.g. Fenimore Cooper) plainly do not apply to her.
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