0472 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen

Eminently forgettable. Two months after finishing this, I started recording my initial thoughts about Emma by saying that I only had one Austen novel to go to complete her works: Sense and Sensibility.

So, my elation having subsided from the discovery that I do not, a quick visit to Wikipedia sufficed to confirm my prediction that what I had forgotten was what I thought I’d forgotten.

There’s this family with girls. There are these guys. Some of them aren’t bad. Some are. Various combinations of relationships ensue with sporadic bouts of emotional confusion. Eventually, everything settles down at an altar or two.

Sound familiar? That’s because it is.

The end.

OPENING LINE	The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
CLOSING LINE	This might reveal the ending. If you want to see the quote, click show Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate; and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.
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