Sense and Sensibility
Ratings363
Average rating3.8
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Ratings363
Average rating3.8
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
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Biggest takeaway: Jane Austen is not a fan of children.
This is basically a rough draft of Pride and Prejudice. Inferior in most ways but can see how it would've been popular at release.
Found it weirdly judgemental, like Jane Austen hadn't yet learned to add nuance to her judgements, characters motives and actions are spelled out rather than shown.
Elinor is the one of the most fleshed out one dimensional character I've ever read. She's perfect and her only issues are dealing with a world that isn't ready for her perfection.
Loved every passage about a bachelor over 35 being tragically, desperately, over the hill.
We listened to this in The Jane Austen Collection in full today and plan to catch a Britbox drama later. Will update my review/thoughts when Goodreads starts behaving again. Thanks to Jim Hart of Bethany House for providing a copy for review.[bc:Sense and Sensibility 20960708 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1393893711l/20960708.SY75.jpg 2809709]
There's nothing actually wrong with this for me to only give three stars. The story is good (the 2008 miniseries is one of my go-to comfort watches), I just found it a bit of a slog to get through. I'm glad to have read it.
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