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Sense and Sensibility (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 50476
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1853260169
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781853260162
ASIN: 1853260169
Publication Date: May 1, 1992
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Two sisters of opposing temperaments but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the epitome of sense; Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love: Elinor desires a man who is promised to another while Marianne loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters--and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Now an award-winning movie written by Emma Thompson.
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 Super story March 25, 2008
Mehajabeen Farid (Coventry)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is a Puffin Classic and it really is a true unforgettable and terrific tale. This tale is very moving and that is why I really like it! It is by the author of Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen! I thoroughly enjoyed it - the rating that I would give it is definitely 9/ 10, and think that older children aged from 10 - 15, like me, would like it and that those who were younger would not really understand (or get pleasure from reading) it very much. Here is the storyline: Elinor and Marianne are both sisters, who are (strangely) immensely different but they are always there for each other and their sister-in-law as well.
Jane Austen's First Look at English Society October 27, 2007
Donald Mitchell (Boston)
Most people who have read Jane Austen will have read Pride and Prejudice. With a title like Sense and Sensibility, most readers will assume that the two books can be interpreted and enjoyed in the same way. Other than having three word titles that employ alliteration in the first and third words, the two novels are more different than similar.
While Pride and Prejudice is primarily about miscommunication, Sense and Sensibility is about the maturation of two sisters as they find themselves confronted by adversity. The former topic allows Ms. Austen more room to roam, but within the later topic she has plenty of opportunities to display her story telling and comic talents. While maturation is an important sub theme in Pride and Prejudice, you see maturation better developed in Sense and Sensibility.
When their father dies, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret find themselves in exile from their family home with their mother. The family estate had been left to their half brother whom their father exhorted to take care of them. But that promise is soon diluted into doing almost nothing through the selfishness of his wife and his vacillation. A relative kindly offers them a country cottage near his home and takes obvious pleasure in their company.
At this modest new home, Elinor found herself entertaining the welcome attentions of Edward Ferrars. Elinor's younger sister, Marianne, is all aflutter over John Willoughby who seems to be committed to her. In fact, everyone assumes that there will soon be wedding bells for Marianne and Willoughby.
All of these pleasant connections are, however, soon disrupted. Willoughby leaves and ignores Marianne. Elinor finds out an unexpected secret about Ferrars that puts her on her caution in pursuing their relationship. As these complications develop, Marianne soon finds herself distraught despite having attracted another suitor, the reliable, but older, Colonel Brandon. Elinor steps into the breach to try to help her sister regain her equilibrium. Both learn what a broken heart can feel like and adjust in their own separate ways.
In vintage Jane Austen style, all bets are off near the end of the book as characters take unexpected steps that open up new possibilities. There's no one quite like Jane Austen for pulling great twists in her romantic comedies. These twists will cause your jaw to drop.
Try not to compare this book to Pride and Prejudice. It's clearly a lesser work, but one that can certainly be enjoyed in its own right.
Sense and Sensibile Good Reading` August 2, 2004
The story is classic to Jane Austen's writing style. It was a great read and kept me wondering even though i had seen the movie first. The book helps explain alot more of the story plot than the movie and takes you futher in the girls lives. It is an easy must read.
Well worth a read January 4, 2000
anna_mcl_team@hotmail.com (N.Ireland)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful book. It is one to read in the garden on a summer afternoon. To me it is different from Austen's other novels and has something young and fresh about it. You really feel like you are with these two sisters as they suffer the trials love puts in their way.
 I have given this book more stars than it deserves October 16, 1999
1 out of 35 found this review helpful
I will not go into the storyline because I do not want to bore you. Basically these old fashioned girls that nobody cares about act stupidly about foppish gentlemen. All the characters are shallow, pathetic and materialist. This is an out of touch womans' book for the naive.
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