Jane Austen July 2024: Pride and Prejudice - Chapter 7!

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[@marciajohansson769]

🎉 thank you for another chapter on my birthday!🎉😊 Kind of funny. It's chapter 7 for 7/11

[@lpeek56]

I have that copy of Jane Austen’s works. I love it! Might be a bit unwieldy for some but I find it ok in my lap or on a book stand❤️

[@stephenwatson672]

My big sister was a fan of Jane Austen before going off to college. Little Women another book appealing to females.

[@tmtb80]

Harold Blum loved Jane Austen. Many men do.

[@stephenwatson672]

@@tmtb80 if you say so. Women like romantic books or books about family. I remember hating Great Expectations by Charles Dickens when I was young. It gave me anxiety.

[@tmtb80]

@@stephenwatson672ok. I guess males like to read books about cars. That's cool. If the authentic test for a great novel is rereading, and the joys of yet further rereadings, then Pride and Prejudice can rival any novel ever written. Though Jane Austen, unlike Shakespeare, practices an art of rigorous exclusion, she seems to me finally the most Shakespearean novelist in the language. - Harold Bloom

[@korganrocks3995]

@@stephenwatson672 I'm a guy, and Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors. I was about 12 when I was first introduced to Pride and Prejudice, and despite still being uninterested in romance I loved it, because there's so much more to the book than romance. Tbh your original comment is a bizarre thing to write on a video reading chapter 7 of a "book appealing to females". Did you watch the first 7 before deciding you were too manly to enjoy it?

[@korganrocks3995]

@@tmtb80 Male Austen fan reporting! No idea what that guy is on about, but I can only assume he's a time traveler from the 90s.