Jane Austen Quote

"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.


Northanger Abbey (1818), ch. 5


Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human...

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human...

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human...

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human...