Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen (Ros Ballaster a Tony Tanner)
Penguin Classics • 2014

An alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780141439662 can be found hereUnfairly deprived of their family inheritance by the grasping Mrs John Dashwood and her husband, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and t...heir mother find themselves in greatly reduced circumstances.Compelled to leave Norland in Sussex for Barton Cottage in Devonshire, the two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne, whose sweet radiance and open nature charm the roguish John Willoughby, is soon deeply in love. Elinor, whose disposition is more cautious and considered, who carefully conceals her emotions, is suffering the loss of Edward Ferrars whom she has left behind.Despite their very different personalities, both sisters experience great sorrows in their affairs of the heart: Marianne demonstrably wretched and Elinor allowing no one to see her private heartache. It is, however, the qualities common to them both - discernment, constancy and integrity in the face of the fecklessness of others - that allow them entry into a new life of peace and contentment.
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Recenzia na knihu na linke je stručná, obsahuje 93 slov a zameriava sa na hodnotenie rozumových a citových aspektov. Text sa výslovne pýta na význam a vzťah medzi rozumom a citom a zdôrazňuje, že ich spojenie je nevyhnutné pre emocionálny rozvoj. Recenzent knihu považuje za dobre napísanú a obohacujúcu, s odporúčaním pre tých, ktorí sa zaujímajú o psychologické a filozofické témy.

Čo je lepšie, potláčaná láska alebo pochabé zamilovanie? Názov: Rozum a cit Autor: Jane Austen Rok vydania v originálnom jazyku: 1811 Žáner: klasika, literatúra 19. storočia, romantické, ženské Séria: Diel: “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I … Čítať ďalej Rozum a cit

An alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780141439662 can be found here

Unfairly deprived of their family inheritance by the grasping Mrs John Dashwood and her husband, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their mother find themselves in greatly reduced circumstances.

Compelled to leave Norland in Sussex for Barton Cottage in Devonshire, the two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne, whose sweet radiance and open nature charm the roguish John Willoughby, is soon deeply in love. Elinor, whose disposition is more cautious and considered, who carefully conceals her emotions, is suffering the loss of Edward Ferrars whom she has left behind.

Despite their very different personalities, both sisters experience great sorrows in their affairs of the heart: Marianne demonstrably wretched and Elinor allowing no one to see her private heartache. It is, however, the qualities common to them both - discernment, constancy and integrity in the face of the fecklessness of others - that allow them entry into a new life of peace and contentment.