Sense and Sensibility
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The rarest of the five books is Sense and Sensibility as fewer than 1,000 were printed when it was first published anonymously in 1811.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022
In "Sense and Sensibility" Marianne Dashwood is the musical one, while her sister Elinor was "neither musical, nor affecting to be so."
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2022
But while Daphne and Simon proved me wrong, for a while there he was giving off some serious Willoughby from Sense and Sensibility vibes.
From Slate • Feb. 15, 2021
Benjamin Disraeli and Henry Adams, among others, had employed the conceit; “ Sense and Sensibility ” was written by “A Lady.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2019
I’d read the first most recently, so I started into Sense and Sensibility, only to remember after I began chapter three that the hero of the story happened to be named Edward.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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