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Sense & Sensibility
Nancy Butler
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Get bogged down in period syntax and vocabulary? Just not into the English Regency thing? Well, here's Jane Austin's classic tale about three sisters with a more modern tone.
Margaret is the adventuresome youngest sister. Marianne, the middle sister, is cute whimsy-driven, and passionately romantic. And Elinor, the most sensible one, is the oldest. Each sister is very different from the others. Each looks at life and copes with heartache and grief in her own
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way. But they are always there for each other.
After their stepbrother leaves them penniless upon their father's death, the sisters and their stepmother retreat to a modest cottage and begin living in genteel poverty.
The problem is that Elinor and Marianne both need husbands. But not just any husbands. They need to marry the right man. It's not surprising that each sister has a very different idea about
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