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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen →

Read it as an argument about which sister is right — and notice how Austen keeps letting the answer change. Money is never a subplot in Austen; it is the plot wearing a dress.

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“It is not what we think or feel, but what we do.”

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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