Regency Novel - Major Writers of Modern Regency Fiction

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“Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.”
—John Major (b. 1943)

“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”
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