17341 Miss Read Visit the 250-acre park

Visit the 250-acre park

Contributors include Soha Chung

Elegance and Grace

to an exploration of the things that make the story so endearing (the heroine

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17341 Miss Read Visit the 250-acre parkDuncan argues that Austen's deep understanding of the sources and cure for suffering shares much in common with Buddhism. She finds the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism in Austen's novels: that life contains suffering, that we can discover the causes of suffering, that we can end suffering, and that we can stop suffering by following the Eightfold Path. Duncan applies a combination of insights from psychology and Buddhism to a close reading of Austen's