Sense and Sensibility

In contemporary English

De: Jane Austen, Historica Historica

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

England, 1790s. The Dashwood family has barely finished mourning their father when his son from a first marriage arrives with his wife and takes possession of the house. Within weeks, Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters are made to feel like guests in the only home they have ever known.
Jane Austen was not yet thirty when she first wrote this story. She had watched how the law worked against women, how fortunes passed from hand to hand while daughters were left with almost nothing, and how society expected them to accept it gracefully. She wrote it all down, not as a complaint, but as a portrait so precise it is still recognisable today.
Elinor Dashwood holds herself together. Marianne does not try to. Between them, Austen asks a question she never answers directly: which of the two is actually right?
From the chalk hills of Sussex to a small cottage in Devonshire, from drawing rooms where nothing is said openly to letters that say too much, Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters through one of the most carefully observed years in English literature.
This edition presents the novel in modern English, without losing any of Austen's precision.
Two hundred years old. Not a single page is boring.

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