Sense & Sensibility, (Paperback)

from tina1969

This version of Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope has been written for the Austen project. I have to say that both Jane Austen and Joanna Trollope are both well respected authors and I haven't read either if them. To give me an idea what the original story is about I have read a synopsis o...

from melissarochelle

Read from August 30 to 31, 2013 S&S has never been my favorite Austen novel (my favorite wavers between Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice depending on my mood), so I was hesitant about this modern day retelling. I think Trollope did a fantastic job of staying true to the Austen novel, but...

from nicx27

I love the classics in terms of storylines, but find them very difficult to read as I like modern language styles, so this seemed like a good idea to me, enabling me to in effect read the story but in modern language. Ultimately, however, it just didn't work for me. I agree with other reviewers t...

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I think the author missed the point of modernizing an old novel. She updated dialogue with slang and gave the characters nicknames, but didn't modernize the situations. It was basically exactly the same novel. But are there really so many golddiggers today? and big inheritances? Maybe some but no...

from whitreidtan

An updated version of Sense and Sensibility? Jane Austen's works are so iconic and so firmly entrenched in their times that it might be difficult to imagine a successful update that stays true to the original but that is in fact the charge that The Austen Project has given writers: to use the Aus...