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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
₦4,500By Jane Austen
‘Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security’. Jane Austen’s sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability.
Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor’s character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Wordsworth Editions; Reprint edition (5 May 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9781853260162
- ISBN-13: 978-1853260162
- ASIN: 1853260169
- Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 2 x 19.6 cm
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Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
₦4,500By Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim – that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband.
With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.