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In this article, the writer examines how Jane Austen and Willa Cather each reveal a particular social climate through their texts, by focusing on one important paragraph from "Northanger Abbey" and "My Antonia" respectively. The writer points out that Jane Austen's novels typically describe a different time and a culture of a different period. The writer also discusses that Willa Cather's novel vividly describes the living conditions of the prairie West.

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"On one level, novels simply tell a story. However, every novel is set in a particular time and place, and many of them have much to tell us about the ways of life in that particular time and time. Jane Austen's novels are famous for evoking an entire world that is now long gone, while Willa Cather's "My Antonia" brilliantly brings to life the lives of early pioneers living under harsh rural conditions in the prairie West."

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