This week, we continue our discussion of Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility. Does Willoughby make the perfect heroic entrance into the story? What draws Elinor and Colonel Brandon together? Is Barton Cottage secretly a metaphor for Marianne?
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Don’t forget to check out my new Tolkien-related show, Shire Reckoning!
Next week, Volume 1, Chapter XV (15) to Volume 2, Chapter V (27) of Sense and Sensibility, live on YouTube on Thursday, August 21st at 9PM Central.
Footnotes:
- Sense And Sensibility
- Sense And Sensibility (The Norton Library)
- Sense And Sensibility (1995)
- Stars And Swords on Bookshop.org
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