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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Yes, Austen is about following the social lives of the reasonably well-off and vapid-- who they are dating, what parties they are attending, the gossip they have about each other, etc. Austen is Reality TV before there was TV.
I don't care about what is happening to the Paris Hilton of today, and I don't care what happened to the Paris Hiltons of the 1800s.
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I would argue personally that Emma Woodhouse is a considerably more interesting person than Paris Hilton, but it's your choice, of course.