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Susan’s Bookshelves: Emma by Jane Austen

I reread each of Jane Austen’s six novels about once in ten years. This is the fourth time I have featured her here in this blog which has been running just over five years. It means that I have read each of these novels at least five or six times. And she never fails me. […]

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