Jane Austen

James Kinsley

"Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" were first published together in 1818, the year after Jane Austen's death. "Northanger Abbey", which combines literary burlesque with a slender but characteristic main plot, contains some of Jane Austen's lightest comedy. "Persuasion", her last completed novel, has been a favorite with many readers, partly because of its heroine Anne Elliott, whom Jane Austen described in a letter as "almost too good for me", and partly because of its vivid evocation of people and places. -- From publisher's description.

And, Persuasion

Northanger Abbey

Helen 

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. 

Katherine

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Iona 

 There is nothing I would not do for who are really my friends. I have no notion loving people those by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong. 

Her duplicity hurts me more than all; till the very last, ifI reasoned with her, she declared herself as much attached to me as ever, and laughed at my fears. I am ashamed to think how long I bore with it; but if ever man had reason to believe himself loved, I was that man.

jana 

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of diasppointed love.

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