![]() These devoted readers have developed, rather than discovered, a Marianne-like inability to love the novel by halves while internalizing Elinor’s more measured approach to its prose. ![]() Instead, they’re describing what it means to read and reread it or to revisit it through film, television, and stage. Readers who love Sense and Sensibility in its original form are rarely describing their first encounters with the book. There are certainly those who love the book in ways that might seem imprudent or excessive. You want to be bowled over, to find charms in every sentence, or to discover that all the novel’s beauties are entirely shared on a first reading. ![]() How do you know if you will love Sense and Sensibility? What if it doesn’t happen to you? First-time readers of Austen’s fiction, knowing its reputation for literary greatness, may approach this novel with Marianne-like expectations. ![]()
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