All 6 Jane Austens seems a little slavish. Leaving off Northanger Abbey would leave room for another worthy book.
No Barbara Pym? Even if you think novels have to be about anomie and dreariness, it might be helpful in sorting them out, to have an idea of their oppsite.
And if they had to scrape up poetry, fables & whatever to have any list at all for pre-1700, why leave out Tale of Genji?
All 6 Jane Austens seems a little slavish. Leaving off Northanger Abbey would leave room for another worthy book.
No Barbara Pym? Even if you think novels have to be about anomie and dreariness, it might be helpful in sorting them out, to have an idea of their oppsite.
And if they had to scrape up poetry, fables & whatever to have any list at all for pre-1700, why leave out Tale of Genji?