HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.'Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic and soon...
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense – or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course....
This eBook edition of «Sense and Sensibility» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. When Mr. Henry Dashwood dies, his house, Norland Park, must pass directly to his grandson, the son of John Dashwood, the child of the elder Dashwood's first wife. His second wife, Mrs. Dashwood, and their daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, inherit only a small income, but John makes a promise to his father that he will take care of his...
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen is a romantic fiction novel about the Dashwood sisters "Elinor" and "Marianne" who go through love, romance, hardship and heartbreak. The scene is set in Southwest England between the years 1792 and 1797 and it follows the story how the two sisters are forced to live in a relative's estate due to the death of their father who leaves them with an inadequate inheritance. The novel was originally published in 1811...
Collected here are Jane Austen's three unfinished works; «Sanditon, The Watsons, and Lady Susan». «Sanditon» is the story of the idyllic modern seaside town and its inhabitants. «The Watsons» is the story of Mr. Watson, a widowed clergyman, and his two sons and four daughters. «Lady Susan», the most complete of the three, is an epistolary novel; the story of its title character, a woman who engages in affairs and searches for suitable husbands for herself and her young daughter. Also...
Collected together here are three of Jane Austen’s posthumously published works; “Sanditon”, “The Watsons”, and “Lady Susan”. These fragmentary tales show Austen experimenting with different literary styles and parodying the popular novels of her day. In “Sanditon,” Austen uses the premise of an idyllic and modern seaside town to examine its inhabitants and their various social circles with her trademark sharp social observations and wit. “The Watsons” is the story of Mr. Watson, a widowed...
Что важнее при выборе спутника жизни – чувства или разум? Да и в самой жизни, собственно, чем лучше руководствоваться? «Разум и чувства» – типичная история своего времени. История матери и трёх дочерей, в одночасье оставшихся без мужской поддержки, и вынужденных самостоятельно пробиваться в жизни в непростой век, принадлежавший мужчинам. Нет, более прекрасного и вдохновляющего чувства, чем любовь. Любовь окрыляет и заставляет совершать безумные и жертвенные поступки, любовь способна...
