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Sense & Sensibility (Austen Project) - Joanna Trollope
Sense & Sensibility (Austen Project)
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From Joanna Trollope, one of the most insightful chroniclers of family life writing fiction today, comes a contemporary retelling of Sense snd Sensibility, Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, money, and two very different sisters.John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of... show more
From Joanna Trollope, one of the most insightful chroniclers of family life writing fiction today, comes a contemporary retelling of Sense snd Sensibility, Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, money, and two very different sisters.John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate. When she descends upon Norland Park, the three Dashwood girls—Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret—are faced with the realities of a cold world and the cruelties of life without their father, their home, or their money.With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts a clever, satirical eye on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.Reimagining Sense and Sensibility in a fresh, modern new light, she spins the novel’s romance, bonnets, and betrothals into a wonderfully witty coming-of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around. For when it comes to money, some things never change....
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780062200464 (0062200461)
ASIN: 0062200461
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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All about me
All about me rated it
2.0 Sense & Sensibility (Austen Project)
I'm just not sure about this one. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. But then again I had no trouble finishing it. I think that Trollope would have got a lot more bang for her buck if she allowed herself greater deviations from the original story. I recall that the movie Clueless was insp...
fromfirstpagetolast
fromfirstpagetolast rated it
I was lucky to receive this copy from @writingatrosys via Twitter and am grateful to them and Harper Collins for allowing me an advanced copy. This review first appeared on Mrsbbooks2011/blogspot.co.uk I’ll start by saying I love Jane Austen. Hers are the books I turn to when I don’t know what to ...
Degrees of Affection
Degrees of Affection rated it
4.0 Sense and Sensibility - Maybe I'm not as against modern retellings as I thought...
Warning: I'm assuming you've read Austen's version of Sense and Sensibility as I write this review. I won't spoil how this book ends but I'll talk about actions and events that happened in the original. Austen's Sense and Sensibility (S&S) was the first of her books I ever read...seventeen years ...
Our Intrepid Heroine
Our Intrepid Heroine rated it
3.0
This is less an adaptation than a straightforward updating of Sense and Sensibility. All characters have the same names, act in the same fashion (more or less), and follow a modernized version of almost the exact plot of the original. Although I love adaptations and appreciate it when they are fai...
deborahmarkus7
deborahmarkus7 rated it
4.0 Sense & Sensibility (Austen Project)
Twice upon a time, there were three Dashwood sisters, though no one took much notice of the youngest one. Their father died far too young, and they and their mother were forced by their cruel sister-in-law and weak half-brother to leave the home they'd grown up in. _Sense & Sensibility_ -- the first...
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