"To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again, as recent and unknown to me, books which I had read carefully a few years before . . . I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book . . . the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it." (Montaigne, Book II, Essay 10 (publ. 1580))

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811)

I liked it because I think Austen writes so very well.

But I think the plot was quite the weakest of her works that I've read so far.

Lots of implausible plot twists, and most of the characters were not very likeable.  Including darling Edward, who behaved like a child during most of the book.

Lead character:  Elinor.  She has "sense".

Willoughby - ugh.   The Steele sisters.  The Palmers.  The Middletons.  The Ferrars.

Marianne - all "sensibility" and thus not very sympathetic until the end of the book.  Colonel Brandon??

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