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One of the reasons I like #JaneAusten is that she brings the whole package: humor, engaging characters, mastery of the written word, and engaging plotlines.

At their best, a lot of older English authors wrote about humans and our strange, contradictory, hypocritical, silly ways. Dickens somehow managed to do it while simultaneously being deadly serious and funny. The Brontës did it albeit without cracking a smile.