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Originally Posted by Xanthe
That's pitiful - a further example of catering to the lowest common denominator of the reading public.
See Mr. Bennett.
See Mr. Bennett read a book.
Mr. Bennett is in his library.
Mr. Bennett has many daughters.
It is very noisy in Mr. Bennett's house.
But it is quiet in the library.
I guess I must have been a child prodigy because I read Austen when I was about 14 and actually understood what I read, in the style it was written.  |
I've been thinking about why Austen was not difficult for me to read as a teenager. By that age, I had already read a lot of children's/young adult classics set in other times and/or places such as the Little House books, The Secret Garden, and Little Women. (There were plenty of others, but it's been so long I can't recall all of them now.) Also, I had well-read parents who could answer my questions about the books I read, and explain British/US terms (jumper = sweater, etc.) So by the time I got to Austen, it was just another British book in an earlier time. Perhaps you had a similar experience?