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I would like to substantiate what Brad Bateman has pointed out. See the following
statement from "On Reading Books", a small talk by JMK for the BBC:
 
"So if you want a serious novel, read the old ones - older, at any rate, than the last ten
years. This year's novels are not so good, nor such pleasant easy reading, as Jane
Austen's Emma or Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
or E. M. Forster's A Room with a View." 
 
JMK, Collected Writings of JMK, XXVIII, Social Political and Literary Writings, p. 330. 
 
Yukihiro Ikeda 
 
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