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Originally Posted by Catlady
Writing style.
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I read Jane Austen when I was young, as I did Dickens, Shakespeare, Lucy Maude Montgomery and Louis L'amour and many others. Mainly because the books were there in my house or my grandparents house. Even at 10 or 12 I didn't find them excessively boring or offensive or even hard to understand.
Sure adapt them and turn Pride and Prejudice into a Harlequin Romance.
As Catlady said the value is in a good part the writing style and possibly some insight into how Jane Austen thought. Take that away bit by bit and eventually you have 50 Shades.
Helen