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Jane Austen

English novelist who wrote Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion — the supreme comic novelist in the English language — whose ironic comedy of manners masks a rigorous moral psychology of self-deception, vanity, and the education of the heart.

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