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Sense and Sensibility
The Bridge Series
This edition first published in 1958
Reprinted 5 times up to December 1971
The Bridge Series offers interesting reading matter for tke students of English as a second or foreing language who have reached a stage between the graded supplementary reader and full English.
The books in the Bridge Series are moderately simplified in vocabulary and often slightly reduced in length. Nearly all retain the syntax of the original writers. This has the dual advantage of giving practice in understanding more advanced sentence patterns and making it possible to keep the original flavour of the book.
This edition first published in 1958
Reprinted 5 times up to December 1971
The Bridge Series offers interesting reading matter for tke students of English as a second or foreing language who have reached a stage between the graded supplementary reader and full English.
The books in the Bridge Series are moderately simplified in vocabulary and often slightly reduced in length. Nearly all retain the syntax of the original writers. This has the dual advantage of giving practice in understanding more advanced sentence patterns and making it possible to keep the original flavour of the book.
156 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1971
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October 8, 2024
Although abridged, this is the third Austen I've read after Persuasion and Mansfield Park. I had previously liked Anne Elliot, but she has been replaced by Elinor Dashwood. Self-control and sangfroid has always been attractive to me, and she is the quintessence of this.
Marianne Dashwood has many similar aspects to Elizabeth Bennet, which are types of women I try to avoid in real life, too. Mercurial, whimsical, and overly emotional, they cause problems on the people around them with only belated reflection and regard. Elinor, on the other hand, has had to nurse a broken heart with Edward's mishaps. Despite this, she still tended to Marianne and her family with that same concern and equanimity.
I prefer Elinor over Anne because Elinor had never really looked down on Edward despite his wanting fortunes. Edward, on the other hand, tried to be as proper as he could given the limitations of his period. The success of their forbearance and patience while upholding what they deemed to be the right thing (at the time) is something I could root for. Elinor, stable and emotionally intelligent, represented the sense in the title. To me, she was able to lift the novel into something that I like, although I rarely deign to read these kinds of novels.
Marianne Dashwood has many similar aspects to Elizabeth Bennet, which are types of women I try to avoid in real life, too. Mercurial, whimsical, and overly emotional, they cause problems on the people around them with only belated reflection and regard. Elinor, on the other hand, has had to nurse a broken heart with Edward's mishaps. Despite this, she still tended to Marianne and her family with that same concern and equanimity.
I prefer Elinor over Anne because Elinor had never really looked down on Edward despite his wanting fortunes. Edward, on the other hand, tried to be as proper as he could given the limitations of his period. The success of their forbearance and patience while upholding what they deemed to be the right thing (at the time) is something I could root for. Elinor, stable and emotionally intelligent, represented the sense in the title. To me, she was able to lift the novel into something that I like, although I rarely deign to read these kinds of novels.
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