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Discerninghearts.com presents great works in Western literature with Joseph Pearce, who is an internationally

acclaimed author and literary scholar whose work explores the great writers of Western literature

through a Catholic and classical lens. He has written numerous best-selling books on figures

such as Shakespeare, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Oscar Wild,

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and El Arbauda. A frequent lecture and longtime contributor to

EWTN, he serves as visiting professor of literature at Ave Maria University and as editor of

St. Austin Review.

Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pierce.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

Jane Austen is arguably the finest female novelist who ever lived and pride and prejudice is arguably the finest, and is certainly the most popular of her novels. An undoubted classic of world literature, its profound Christian morality is all too often missed and willfully overlooked by today's

postmodern critics. In all things, Jane Austen was a woman of faith. Perhaps nowhere is this

more apparent than in Mansfield Park, her most neglected, abused, and misunderstood novel.

Like Austin's other novels, it can be fully appreciated

but only illuminated by the virtuous life

and Christian beliefs of the author herself.

Jane Austen saw the follies and foibles of human nature

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