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The Quiet Hour · Calloway
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
2016 · Simon & Schuster · 468 pages
Fiction, Romance, Historical, RegencyInheritance and succession, fictionMate selection, fictionSocial classes, fictionFamily life, fiction
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This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating "sense and sensibility" in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make "sense" by bringing with it enough assets and income to permit the couple to continue to live in happy, idle leisure, complete with servants and a prestigious address. Provided one can find such a match among the eligible persons of the opposite sex, one then hopes for "sensibility", or capacity for emotion, so that if love is not immediately to hand, it mi…
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