The Art of Living: Jane Austen's "Emma"

The Minefield
22/12/2022 1h 0min
The Art of Living: Jane Austen's "Emma"

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In Jane Austen’s novel Emma, we find an abiding concern with the demands, not just of propriety, but of morality, an attentiveness to the dangers of self-deception, and vivid reminders of the importance of friendship to progress in the moral life.

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