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06-06-2010, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Chess View Post
I agree to that statement, Ernest Hemingway is a lot easier to understand, Jane Austen is also quite a good author too, and her writing style is also effective for studying purposes.
I have read Pride and Prejudice, but it was a translated version.
I thought her style was too old and no one would say things like the characters in the story. The translator may have been too old.
Do you speak like people in the story?


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