Claire Lamont
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Amherst ESL Books for New Readers
Easthampton - Flavors of Love: Sweet & Spicy
Jones Library's Jane Austen's Regency World Book Club Reading List
Northampton Book Group - Great Books
Easthampton - Flavors of Love: Sweet & Spicy
Jones Library's Jane Austen's Regency World Book Club Reading List
Northampton Book Group - Great Books
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Jane Austen's first published novel, sparkling with wit and artistry, captures the inequities of birth, class, and marriage faced by the sisters Dashwood. Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support....
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Jones Library's Jane Austen's Regency World Book Club Reading List
Westminster Read a Book Made Into a Movie and Watch the Movie READO Suggestions
Westminster Read a Book Made Into a Movie and Watch the Movie READO Suggestions
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Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine...