A true classic in every sense! (Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen)

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Product:	Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Date:	05/12/00 (66 review reads)
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Advantages: True Classic!

Disadvantages: Maybe not eberyone likes this kind of novel?

Sense and Sensibility is a very clever satire on the excess of emotion that characterized the Romantic age in which Jane Austen lived, but it is also an interesting romance. This is probably the only Austen novel in which it is not immediately clear who will end up married to whom by the end of the novel. I had seen a more convincing compatibility between Elinor and Colonel Brandon than between him and Marianne.
They are all stock Victorian characters, but Austen is able to weave them together so splendidly that they actually take on a life of their own. Sense and Sensibility has the grace that some Victorian novels lack. It does not have the social protest of many George Eliot novels, nor the pure outrage of Charles Dickens, but it is sweet. If you are longing for something to make you feel better about life and regain your fresh-faced innocence that evil is punished in this world and that the good will triumph, then this is the book for you. If you want anything more than mild rebellion at the place women are put into in Victorian society or some insight into the seedy underbelly of London gentry, then this is not the book for you.
This is a true classic, and no-one I believe will ever doubt that. You could write a 10,000 words essay and still not do this real classic novel the justice it deserves, it trully is of that calibre!

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