The early 19th century sentence

Of it, Virginia Woolf says, "Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it."

Holiday reading

• Treason's Harbor, Patrick O'Brian
  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
• Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors, Susan Sontag
• Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Far Side of the World, Patrick O'Brian
• The Reverse of the Medal, Patrick O'Brian