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  The Three Weissmanns of Westport

  by Cathleen Schine

  Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and Sensibility has moved to Westport, Connecticut, in this enchanting modern-day homage to the classic novel. When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five ... He said the words “Irreconcilable differences,” and saw real confusion in his wife’s eyes. “Irreconcilable differences?” she said. “Of course there are irreconcilable... (more)
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  Sense and Sensibility

  by 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... (more)
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  Colonel Brandon's Diary

  by Amanda Grange

  "Colonel Brandon's Diary" continues Amanda Grange's popular series of Jane Austen retellings.At the age of eighteen, James Brandon's life is set fair. He is in love with his father's ward, Eliza, and he is looking forward to a lifetime of happiness with her. But his world is shattered when Eliza is forced to marry his brother and James joins the army in despair. Whilst he is in the East Indies, Eliza is badly... (more)
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  Jane Austen: The Complete Novels

  Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / Mansfield Park / Emma / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Lady Susan

  by Jane Austen

  Jane Austen wrote in the eighteenth century, but her novels are timeless. This complete anthology is unique among single-volume editions of her work because it includes the obscure but delightful Lady Susan, along with the six better-known novels and thirty of Hugh Thomson's irresistible drawings. All of Jane Austen's novels are love stories, all are stories of country gentry, and all end happily, one way or... (more)
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  Nice to Come Home To

  by Rebecca Flowers

  A funny, entertaining novel of love and family for our times: a single woman who fears she's lost her chance at a family of her own, begins to accumulate an ad hoc one around her. In the tradition of Elinor Lipman or Marisa de los Santos ( Love Walked In ), Flowers delivers a smart, witty, appealing story of love, family, and community that breaks the mold of the conventional love story-and will have readers... (more)
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  The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries

  Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

  by Emma Thompson, Clive Coote, Lindsay Doran

  Back in print for Jane Austen and film book fans, featuring Emma Thompson's Oscar®-winning shooting script and her "fascinating journal of making the film." — Jack Kroll, Newsweek.The landmark film, nominated for seven Academy Awards®, appearing on more than 100 top-ten lists across America and grossing more than $125 million worldwide remains as vibrant and true to Jane Austen as anyone could have imagined.... (more)
• The Works of Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion)

  

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  The Works of Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion)

  The complete novels of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion in one large, brand new and giftable hardcover with perfect dj.
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  The Third Sister: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

  by Julia Barrett

  A novel that continues what Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" began. In "The Third Sister", Julia Barrett faithfully evokes Jane Austen's style, characters and ambience to tell just what happens when the youngest Miss Dashwood meets two eligible suitors: the kind and earnest George Osborne and the very dashing and overly bold Lt. William du Plessy. Which man will she choose? Which man will she love? The... (more)
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  Eliza's Daughter

  A Sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

  by Joan Aiken

  A Young Woman Longing for Adventure and an Artistic Life... Because she's an illegitimate child, Eliza is raised in the rural backwater with very little supervision. An intelligent, creative, and free-spirited heroine, unfettered by the strictures of her time, she makes friends with poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, finds her way to London, and eventually travels the world, all the while seeking to... (more)
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  Who Wrote That?

  Jane Austen

  by Heather Lehr Wagner

  Grade 7-10–Drawing on personal observations of her own family, Austen wrote about marriage customs and English society, inserting humor and sarcasm into her works about romantic attachments. This clearly written, short biography contains descriptions of Austen's family life, her early education, writing career, and influences. Illustrations and photographs of movie adaptations, the family home, engravings from... (more)
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  Austen: Book 2

  Reason and Romance

  by Debra White Smith

  First Impressions revealed the soul of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice . Now, echoing the themes in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Debra White Smith crafts a delightful, contemporary story about passion and love. When Ted arrives, Elaina assumes he can’t be interested in her. But Ted surprises her. Attracted by his charming personality, Elaina dreams about love. But then comes shocking news. Has... (more)
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  Sense and Sensibility With Lady Susan and the Watsons

  by Jane Austen

  Had this book been written today, the title might have been Sense and Sensuality, but Regency authors were much more circumspect. The title refers to the two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gives her whole heart to every endeavor. When the Dashwoods _ are sent, almost impoverished, to a small cottage in Devonshire... (more)
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  Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries: Book 2

  Suspense and Sensibility

  Or, First Impressions Revisited

  by Carrie Bebris

  Fresh from the curious and unsettling matter of Caroline Bingley (as related in Pride and Prescience ), Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have every intention of enjoying their still newlywed status at Pemberly until they are confronted with another mysterious situation, ... one of Suspense and Sensibility Elizabeth Darcy and her beloved husband Fitzwilliam are taking on the responsibility of finding a suitable suitor for... (more)
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  Willoughby's Return: A Tale of Almost Irresistible Temptation

  by Jane Odiwe

  A lost love returns, rekindling forgotten passions… In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, when Marianne Dashwood marries Colonel Brandon, she puts her heartbreak over dashing scoundrel John Willoughby in the past. Three years later, Willoughby's return throws Marianne into a tizzy of painful memories and exquisite feelings of uncertainty. Willoughby is as charming, as roguish, and as much in love with her... (more)
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  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

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  Sense and Sensibility #1 Jane Austen

  by Jane Austen, Nancy Butler

  Award-winning writer Nancy Butler, adapter ofMarvel's best-selling adaptation of PRIDE & PREJUDICE, returns to Marvel with another Jane Austen classic:SENSE & SENSIBILITY! Alongside incredible artist Sonny Liew (My Faith in Frankie, Wonderland), Butler brings to life the world of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two daughters without parents or means, forced to experience hardship, romance, and... (more)
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  The Time Mistress: Book 1

  The Time Baroness

  by Georgina Young-Ellis

  It started out as such a simple experiment: time-travel to Jane Austen’s England, live a quiet, rural life as a woman of independent means, observe and notate. I never thought I would fall in love or... end up planning a prison break! When did everything go so terribly wrong? October 24, 1820 - Dr. Cassandra Reilly ****** The Time Baroness is the story of Dr. Cassandra Reilly, a scientist from the year 2120 who... (more)
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  Expectations of Happiness

  by Rebecca Collins

  International bestselling author of the Pemberley Chronicles series explores the beloved characters of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Acclaimed for historical accuracy and emulation of Jane Austen's voice as well as the depth of her depictions of the complex and evolving society of the day-especially what life was like for women-Collins imagines three sisters dealing with what happens when a spirited girl... (more)
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  All Roads Lead to Austen

  A Yearlong Journey With Jane

  by Amy Elizabeth Smith

  Armed with only a suitcase and dozens of copies of Austen's novels, professor Amy Elizabeth Smith took to the road and organized book clubs in six different Central and South American countries. Along the way, she battled through a life-threatening illness, discovered friendship and love, and learned more about life-and the power of Austen-than she ever could have imagined. All Roads Lead to Austen celebrates the... (more)
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  Mechanized Masterpieces: A Steampunk Anthology

  by Anika Arrington, Alyson Grauer, Aaron and Belinda Sikes, A. F. Stewart, Scott William Taylor, Neve Talbot, M. K. Wiseman, D W Wilkin

  Amid a cacophony of cranking sprockets and cogs, in chuffs of steam and soot, comes the expansion of classic literature into alternative Steampunk masterpieces. Follow nine skilled authors as they lead old friends and new acquaintances through Jamaica, Singapore, Cape Town, Denmark, Paris, London, and Geneva on a phantasmagorical Steampunk World Tour. Tropic of Cancer: Edward Rochester battles the elements and... (more)