Of which Jane Austen novel did Somerset Maugham remark that the heroine is 'a little prig' and the hero 'a pompous ass', yet he did not care?
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Correct answer: D. Mansfield Park
Explanation
Maugham (Ten Novels and Their Authors) on Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram of Mansfield Park (1814).
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