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"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."

Anthony Trollope

It's the early 1980s.

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It's the early 1980s--the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the caf's on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and Georg[...]

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