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The Common Reader is a Substack on literature and writing, covering authors like Jane Austen, Flaubert, and Malcolm Gladwell, and the state of literary culture.
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gsf_emergency_2 · 2025-06-30
the most complex of the Austen rakes, destined to be "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life", according to another regency quip, HC was
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