Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen - Retold by Clare West
Classics - BESTSELLER

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 1.800 Headwords, CEFR B2
Word count: 24.345
Stage 5 Audio-CDs: selected readers available on CD (3 CDs in most cases)

Sometimes the Dashwood grilds 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 live, waking and sleeping?