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Enjoy the romance and wit of the charming Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen's classic tale Sense and Sensibility.
Jane Austen's debut novel, Sense and Sensibility has been resonating with readers since it was first published in 1811 and has been made into a number of adaptations.
The Dashwood sisters couldn't be more different. While Elinor lives her life in a reasonable manner, Marianne tends to make decisions following her heart. But when it comes to finding a husband, the sisters realize, through much trial and error, that a combination of their personalities is ideal when it comes to finding true happiness. Beyond the romance, Sense and Sensibility is chock-full of humor and wit that is also a commentary on British middle-class society at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Austen's mastery of irony, dialogue, and realism support character development and make Sense and Sensibility a pure pleasure to read. Complete and unabridged, this elegantly designed, clothbound edition features an elastic closure and a new introduction by Christina Bartolomeo.
Download Sense And Sensibility Knickerbocker Classics edition by Jane Austen Christina Bartolomeo Literature Fiction eBooks
"Everyone who purports to love the classics has read Jane Austen, right? Well, I hadn't, so I thought I'd better get on it. I started reading Sense and Sensibility about a year ago but couldn't get into it. The language of the time is so flowery that to describe one thought or action takes a great many words, and sentences can be so long that by the end of them I'd forgotten what was at the beginning. Austen is not someone you can skim. I put the book down for many months and read a ton of other books that I liked better.
A few months ago I read Daisy Miller and The Yellow Wallpaper (those are two separate works and not a treatise on Daisy Miller choosing yellow wallpaper for her domicile), and the flowery language of those got me back into the mindset where I could finish Sense and Sensibility. I will admit that I'm glad I've seen the 1996 movie (with Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, et al) a few times so I knew the basics of what was going to happen. However, I believe there are some differences between the book and movie. I'll have to watch the movie again just to see if my memory serves.
About this edition - I like the inclusion of the illustrations. They are rather small on the screen, but clicking them enlarges them somewhat, and you can zoom in to see more detail. There are a few typographical mistakes - I'm guessing that a printed page was scanned for digitization, because there were a few instances where the letter b was where an h should have been: "bas" instead of "has" and the like. There aren't many of those, and they shouldn't interfere with your enjoyment of Elinor and Marianne's trials and tribulations and eventual... nah, I'm not going to post any spoilers just in case you're one of the very few people who don't know the story.
The main question I am left with is: Will I read another of Jane Austen's books? Yes, I believe I will, but I'm going to take a break and read some more straightforward books first to clear my head."
Product details - File Size 1833 KB
- Print Length 188 pages
- Publisher Race Point Publishing (September 15, 2015)
- Publication Date September 15, 2015
- Sold by Digital Services LLC
- Language English
- ASIN B01M97SG1C
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Sense And Sensibility Knickerbocker Classics edition by Jane Austen Christina Bartolomeo Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
- No Austen story can tempt me more than Pride and Prejudice, but I do consider Sense and Sensibility to be something of a clumsier precursor to that beloved book. Austen ambitiously balances humor, sincerity of affection, meditative reasoning, and even a testosterone-fueled midnight scene between a selfish lover and the book's protagonist, Elinor.
This is another story that cautions young women against cads and knaves of varied shapes and sizes. In the most roundabout 18th century English manner, scandals abound amongst a cast of people unwittingly observed by a toying, omniscient narrator. I love the roundness of all the characters, even the (numerous) un-pitiable antagonists. Austen has a masterful flair for characterizing someone's essence in a few paragraphs, and following up duly on it by addressing you with his/her direct speech. Never was a man made so abhorrent as after John Dashwood speaks of his and his wife's misfortunes. What a card! It's hard to believe he comes from the same stock as his sisters Dashwood.
This is a masterful novel because Austen is a badass master writer. Or should I say mistress? I have never encountered a more clairvoyant portrayal of ladies' plight during this time in England. They are constantly subjugated to sexist laws, endless man-splaining, and the fretful existence that hinges on a man's regard for her 'pretty face'.
In her own way, Austen's narrator reveals the nuances in the most basic human traits that occur in even the most elegant of settings... And made me wonder, on more than one occasion, which character's opinions I should trust. When everyone is convinced of his/her own self importance, whose judgment are we to believe? Our heroine, Elinor, guides you to judge for yourself with propriety and caution; her sense is all the time checked by the unparalleled closeness between a somewhat desperate circle of women and their good-natured friends. There is much to entertain!
This is amazing work is inspired and truly ageless. I cannot recommend you to a better Saturday afternoon read (except maybe Pride and Prejudice lol but that's just me). Enjoy! - Everyone who purports to love the classics has read Jane Austen, right? Well, I hadn't, so I thought I'd better get on it. I started reading Sense and Sensibility about a year ago but couldn't get into it. The language of the time is so flowery that to describe one thought or action takes a great many words, and sentences can be so long that by the end of them I'd forgotten what was at the beginning. Austen is not someone you can skim. I put the book down for many months and read a ton of other books that I liked better.
A few months ago I read Daisy Miller and The Yellow Wallpaper (those are two separate works and not a treatise on Daisy Miller choosing yellow wallpaper for her domicile), and the flowery language of those got me back into the mindset where I could finish Sense and Sensibility. I will admit that I'm glad I've seen the 1996 movie (with Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, et al) a few times so I knew the basics of what was going to happen. However, I believe there are some differences between the book and movie. I'll have to watch the movie again just to see if my memory serves.
About this edition - I like the inclusion of the illustrations. They are rather small on the screen, but clicking them enlarges them somewhat, and you can zoom in to see more detail. There are a few typographical mistakes - I'm guessing that a printed page was scanned for digitization, because there were a few instances where the letter b was where an h should have been "bas" instead of "has" and the like. There aren't many of those, and they shouldn't interfere with your enjoyment of Elinor and Marianne's trials and tribulations and eventual... nah, I'm not going to post any spoilers just in case you're one of the very few people who don't know the story.
The main question I am left with is Will I read another of Jane Austen's books? Yes, I believe I will, but I'm going to take a break and read some more straightforward books first to clear my head.
