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Simon & Schuster, October 2004
Enriched Classic Mass Market Paperback, 416 pages
ISBN-10: 0743487761
ISBN-13: 9780743487764
Description
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A timeless tale of romantic manners and mores in which two vastly different sisters experience love and loss under the rigid view of British society.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
• A chronology of the author's life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
Doings Hinsdale, October 17, 2009
...It's been 200 years since Jane Austen penned her first novel, Elinor and Marianne, the story of two very different sisters that would become the classic story, Sense and Sensibility. Certainly, the name of the story ...
State Hornet, October 14, 2009
...Ben H. Winters is the author of the latest rendition of Jane Austen's novel, 'Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.' His novel is currently on the New York Times Best Seller list. State Hornet staff member Katrina Tupper had the chance ...
Exeter Express and Echo, June 19, 2009
...SENSE and Sensibility, Jane Austen's classic tale of two impoverished sisters, will be brought vividly to life in an open-air production at Escot Park. Chapterhouse Theatre Company will perform Laura ...
Inside Story, May 4, 2009
...No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen?s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes Brian McFarlane Tags: Brian McFarlane, fiction, film Above: Colin ...
San Francisco Chronicle, March 28, 2009
...and vendettas unfold. If this sounds more 19th than 21st century, it is purely intentional, as Haji references Jane Austen several times and calls Saira's meddlesome, matchmaking mother 'some Indo-Pak version of Mrs. Bennett.' Like the ...
Guardian Unlimited, March 14, 2009
...Jane Austen's stories tell of the passion and despair that lurk behind the niceties of civilised, drawing-room behaviour. In the author's major novels, from Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion ...
Guardian Unlimited, March 14, 2009
...Jane Austen's stories tell of the passion and despair that lurk behind the niceties of civilised, drawing-room behaviour. In the author's major novels, from Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion ...
Examiner.com, February 14, 2009
...and a compelling scholarly mystery, this is a lush, detailed love story any romantic will enjoy. Persuasion by Jane Austen ? Though most Austen lovers would cite Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility or Emma as the most romantic of her ...
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Mansfield ParkIn Mansfield Park, the Bertram family’s social and private worlds are revealed through the eyes of Fanny Price, a poor relation residing with...Read More
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PersuasionCentering on Anne Elliot, Austen's Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, and a story of missed opportunities and second chances.Read More -
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Pride and PrejudiceENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Jane Austen's lively, humorous, and ultimately timeless tale of proper English society,...Read More
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