By Virginia Woolf
ISBN-10: 190917548X
ISBN-13: 9781909175488
Set in the summertime domestic of an English relatives, the unconventional unfolds via moving views of every character's move of recognition, recalling adolescence feelings and highlights of grownup relationships.
Shifts happen even mid-sentence, and in a few feel they resemble the rotating beam of the lighthouse.
A landmark of excessive modernism and certainly one of Woolf's most sensible works.
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The abrupt loss of such a hope, and her total rejection by the man she has loved, plunge Marianne into a sorrow which seems almost too much to bear. It is true that Elinor never has to bear Introduction xxxiii what Marianne does. The sensible woman ironically has more comfort from delusive hope—as long as Edward is not actually married. The work of trying to make sense of the world, of trying to understand, to comprehend, to know—and to accept the fruits of this knowing—is'a very hard work in Sense and Sensibility.
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