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Jane Austen is a giantess among giants, towering above the greatest writers of her own sex and indeed of both sexes. With the exception perhaps of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare, she holds her own among the greatest of all time. She can be mentioned in the same breath as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Dickens. Few indeed can hold a candle to her in terms of the sheer brilliance of her work and the perceptive depths…