Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

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Begin Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility with the Dashwood family. Read the opening closely, with context for inheritance, family obligations, and changing…

Readings pair Austen’s novel with commentary by John Mullan, Claire Tomalin, and David Shapard.

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Volume IPromises and Precarity
Settled in SussexVol. I, Ch. 1–3
Prep School: Part 1
Fish and GameVol. I, Ch. 1–3
Driving a BaroucheVol I, Ch. 3
To Wish Was to HopeVol I, Ch 3-4
Prep School: Part 2
Poor and SmallVol I, Ch. 5-6
A Miracle at FortyVol I, Ch. 7-8
Walked Out of a BookVol I, Ch. 9-10
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