For some of my favorite books:
Jane Eyre: Plain women should be more suspicious.
Emma: Women should mind their own business.
Sense and Sensibility: Men are lovable but stupid gits.
Pride and Prejudice: A rich man needs a wife.
Nexa
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“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.â€
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones