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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
Everyone who purports to love the classics has read Jane Austen, right? Well, I hadn't, so I thought I'd better get on it. I started reading Sense and Sensibility about a year ago but couldn't get into it. The language of the time is so flowery that to describe one thought or action takes a great many words, and sentences can be so long that by the end of them I'd forgotten what was at the beginning. Austen is not someone you can skim. I put the book down for many months and read a ton of other books that I liked better.
A few months ago I read Daisy Miller and The Yellow Wallpaper (those are two separate works and not a treatise on Daisy Miller choosing yellow wallpaper for her domicile), and the flowery language of those got me back into the mindset where I could finish Sense and Sensibility. I will admit that I'm glad I've seen the 1996 movie (with Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, et al) a few times so I knew the basics of what was going to happen. However, I believe there are some differences between the book and movie. I'll have to watch the movie again just to see if my memory serves.
About this edition - I like the inclusion of the illustrations. They are rather small on the screen, but clicking them enlarges them somewhat, and you can zoom in to see more detail. There are a few typographical mistakes - I'm guessing that a printed page was scanned for digitization, because there were a few instances where the letter b was where an h should have been: "bas" instead of "has" and the like. There aren't many of those, and they shouldn't interfere with your enjoyment of Elinor and Marianne's trials and tribulations and eventual... nah, I'm not going to post any spoilers just in case you're one of the very few people who don't know the story.
The main question I am left with is: Will I read another of Jane Austen's books? Yes, I believe I will, but I'm going to take a break and read some more straightforward books first to clear my head.
A few months ago I read Daisy Miller and The Yellow Wallpaper (those are two separate works and not a treatise on Daisy Miller choosing yellow wallpaper for her domicile), and the flowery language of those got me back into the mindset where I could finish Sense and Sensibility. I will admit that I'm glad I've seen the 1996 movie (with Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, et al) a few times so I knew the basics of what was going to happen. However, I believe there are some differences between the book and movie. I'll have to watch the movie again just to see if my memory serves.
About this edition - I like the inclusion of the illustrations. They are rather small on the screen, but clicking them enlarges them somewhat, and you can zoom in to see more detail. There are a few typographical mistakes - I'm guessing that a printed page was scanned for digitization, because there were a few instances where the letter b was where an h should have been: "bas" instead of "has" and the like. There aren't many of those, and they shouldn't interfere with your enjoyment of Elinor and Marianne's trials and tribulations and eventual... nah, I'm not going to post any spoilers just in case you're one of the very few people who don't know the story.
The main question I am left with is: Will I read another of Jane Austen's books? Yes, I believe I will, but I'm going to take a break and read some more straightforward books first to clear my head.