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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Start date: July 1, 2013

Finish date: July 31, 2013

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Mar 27, 2013 Cee rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, historical, romance, stand-alone

My least favourite Austen so far. Although I loved Elinor, I didn't care much for any of the love interests for her and Marianne. The last quarter of the book dragged somewhat, and the resolution didn't leave me with the warm feelings I was hoping it would. The writing is amazing on a sentence-level, and her characterisations are amusing as ever, but her later works are a lot more polished and tighter in execution. ...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Hajar Y, rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, on-kindle, genre_classics, 1001-must-read-challenge, read-in-2013

Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility , depicts the life of two Dashwood sisters, the rational Elinor and the passionate Marianne, as they experience the joys and the grieves caused by love.

While I appreciate the idea behind this book, I still find it severely lacking the charms and sensible plot that made Pride and Prejudice interesting, readable and a more humourous read. The eloquent language is no doubt beautiful and the sparse social commentaries are certainly intrig ...more

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