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Sense and Sensibility: read and explore
When the Dashwood sisters are forced from their family estate into reduced…
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- Author
- Jane Austen
- Form
- novel
- Catalog year
- 1811
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The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and …
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