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In a 1954 essay on Jane Austen, C. S. Lewis calls attention to the “hardness or at least the firmness of Jane Austen’s thought.” “The great abstract nouns of the classical English moralists,” he writes, “are unblushingly and uncompromisingly used; good sense, courage, contentment, fortitude, ‘some duty neglected, some failing indulged,’ impropriety, indelicacy. . . . vanity, folly, ignorance, reason.” For Austen, “all is hard, clear, definable. . . . Contrasted with the world of modern fiction, Jane Austen’s is at once less soft and less cruel.” 
Moral firmness doesn’t make Austen ponderous or priggish; she’s no Mary Bennet, that fountain of misapplied aphorisms. On the contrary, Austen is among the most bemused and amusing novelists in English literature, capable of writing splendid scenes like the one in ....

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