Sense and Sensibility (Audiobook)

from ecataldi

Re-reading this book just solidified my opinion that it is the best of the Jane Austen novels. I know everyone has their hearts set on Pride and Prejudice and Mr. Darcy, but I believe that her first novel is raw and real and much more relatable. It truly remains as fresh a cautionary tale today a...

from lucybrown

It's by Jane Austen...doesn't that say it all? I really loved her miniature portraits of some of the minor characters in this one. My copy is part of a set. Small blue cloth covered books with bible-thin pages

from Juva

Two sisters with very different dispositions find themselves in much reduced circumstances following the death of their father. Banished to a distant county, they must brave the censure of bad tempered relations, and the damaging attentions of over-zealous friends if they are ever to secure their...

from nosborm

So I started off thinking this book was meh, but once I got over the slump of the first 100 pages I (surprisingly) really enjoyed it. Keeping track of names and relations was a bit tricky at times (but no harder and actually a bit easier than Game of Thrones). Knowing that unmarried people are Mi...

from SueinCyprus

The classic story of two sisters: one quiet and sensible, the other effusive and easily hurt (full of 'sensiblity' as they called it). The book charts their first romances, and the ways they deal with hurt. Rather a lot of detail, in the style of the times, and some moralising - but there's also ...