1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Roxana
  • Moll Flanders
  • Love In Excess
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of a Tub
  • Oroonoko
  • The Princess of Cleves

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

61. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I've read all Jane Austen's novels over the years, but this time read them one after another in a collected edition. She seems very modern compared with everything I've read that precedes her. I can't put my finger on what the difference is. I hadn't realised that there is a satirical thread through all the novels, either.

Sense and Sensibility contrasts the feelings and behaviour of two sisters, Elinor and Mariane Dashwood. Jane was a wonderful observer of human behaviour. I wond if her friends and family recognised themselves in her characters?

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