Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)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

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and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance

sensual piece of art

including then president Theodore Roosevelt

of love and redemption

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Modena and Reggio

Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall

He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales—with an anarchic twist—but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination

It moved me to tears

overworked narrator who seems to be on the cusp of a perfect life but finds herself on a new path of discoveries about everything she thought she knew

from his struggling early career to his widely reported