[Warning] This episode contains explicit language and explicit themes. Listener discretion is advised.

The first of six legendary literary classics! However, just how good was Jane Austen's first novel? That's what Danny and Alexander the Tsar are here to discuss. As the one who read the piece, Danny discusses the structure and narrative and with Alex they compare it to her later works. Danny goes over the reasons he thinks it's weaker than many of her works and how it really reads like her first novel. They go over a little of the history surrounding its publication and how the story came to be and then discuss the themes within and how Austen describes her time in words. They look at things like marriageability, British gentry, mating rituals, courtship, and romance. So many things to discuss in one of the best period pieces every written in the English language.

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