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From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
Date: 20070805
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Byline: Carole Goldberg

Aug. 5--Mark Twain was not Jane Austen's biggest fan. Twain found her writing tedious, her characters dull and her stories offensively sentimental, complaints he also lobbed at the novels of Sir Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper.

"I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin," he wrote in a letter to Hartford minister Joseph Twichell in 1898. "Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice" I want to dig her up and beat her over the ...

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