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i’m intrigued…

This is one of the best non-fiction Books I‘ve ever read. And believe me I studied literature and read Lots of non-fiction about literature. The chapter about Ann Radcliffe was great. I love her and now I wanna reread The Mysteries of Udolpho!!

“It is true that we have a limited time to read among so many choices, and many defend the canon because it’s the ‘best’ that literature has to offer. But the more authors I sought from Austen’s bookshelf—these women whom tastemakers removed, replaced, and effaced—the more I became convinced that there is no one book that ‘everyone’ should read.”