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Title: Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen, James Kinsley ISBN: 0-19-283358-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (85 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Classic Romance
Comment: I am not saying that Sense and Sensibility is not a great classic book all I am saying is that when I read it I got bored it was a little slow of a book for me and just did not pull me into the charactors lives. I know that for Jane Austen's time period her books such as Pride and Predjudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion were pretty racy but nowadays we can appreciate these books if teachers made them appeal to us give the students a real life scenario that they could put the charactors in then the students would get into the book a lot easier. I would reccomend this book to English Teachers and Proffesers to have their students read it will teach them the value of a classic book and that there are great books that were inspired by classic books such as this. I hope that this review has helped you in making a decision about this book!
Rating: 1
Summary: D. H. Lawrence was right as well....
Comment: ...."thoroughly unpleasant" was how he found Austen's work, "English in the bad, mean, snobbish, sense of the word."
I wouldn't go that far, but those stilted paragraphs, those arid drawing-rooms, those aristocratic concerns and conceits (how to redo the parlor? How to arrange for the right guests to see it?) leave me completely exhausted. The superegoic hatred of impulse; the Dickensian pasteboard moralizing; the conservative exaltation of appropriate manners and self-restraint....The only characters I was able to care about in this novel were the villains--or rather, given Austen's sterilized offsetting of taste versus boorishness, call them negative role models. And even they did nothing more dramatic than offering an occasional cold shoulder to the well-bred and undeserving.
But then I wonder: perhaps all this is some fantastic satire? Perhaps the pomposity and the Emily Postian fussiness is a deliberate attempt at humor? If so, I'm sorry to say it went above my head.
Pride and Prejudice is next; I hope it's a more human work than this one was.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thoroughly charming and enchanting novel
Comment: Perhaps the negatives of Jane Austen is the dated quality of the words she used. But, when one accompanies reading with a dictionary, she becomes a thoroughly charming author. I read Jane Austen first in the 8th grade, and found it difficult to follow, and difficult to understand the humor. After the 10th grade, a student gave a lecture on Irony and Seven Common Uses as Seen in Jane Austen's Three Most Famous Novels. After hearing this, I came to a new appreciation. Not light reading, it is the type of book that can be read over and over, and enjoyed more as the years go by. I finished it for the fourth time three days ago, and still find myself dreaming, writing, and even speaking in the cautious and conscious turn of phrase that Jane Austen can so well suspend. While not a book for a younger generation, it is definitely the kind of book that should and will be read. Not, however, as sintilating as her future novels, and not as humorous as Emma or Pride and Prejudice. A good starting point to get into reading British Literature.
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Title: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ISBN: 0553213105 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1983 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Emma by Jane Austen ISBN: 0553212737 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Persuasion by Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble ISBN: 0451526384 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble ISBN: 0451526295 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Northanger Abbey by Robert Kiely, Jane Austen ISBN: 0375759174 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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