These titles in the popular First Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover.
Ann Kronheimer Books
In diesem Malblock finden sich 24 wunderschöne Motive, die ausgemalt und mit funkelnden Stickern beklebt werden können.
Struktur-Malblock
Schablone drunter, Muster schraffieren, fertig!
'Vanity, not love, has been my folly'. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she…
Sense and Sensibility
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. '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 qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival. This book, the first of Austen's novels to be published, remains as fresh a cautionary tale today as it ever was.
