I'm Friendly With Jane Austen



The things you can find in Amazon's Search Inside the book feature... as I've noted before, something I once wrote years ago ended up in The Friendly Jane Austen, so I dug up a scan. I like being quoted on the same page as Sir Walter Scott and Lionel Trilling. Illustrious company indeed. "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

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