Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5:: Sense and Sensibility (Oxford Bookworms ELT) - Softcover

Austen, Jane; West, Clare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0194792331 ISBN 13: 9780194792332

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2007

Synopsis

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen, how can you ever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fills your life, waking and sleeping?

CEFR B2
Word count 24,345

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Review:

Two sisters of opposing temperaments but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the epitome of sense; Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love: Elinor desires a man who is promised to another while Marianne loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters--and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Now an award-winning movie written by Emma Thompson.

Review:

"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be." --Eudora Welty

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0194792331
• ISBN 13: 9780194792332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112