Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 4.6- Word count
- 225K words
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- 23
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Foreign Language Books Foreign Literature Love EntanglementsComplex HumanityPsychological InsightMoral DilemmaSatirical StyleFemale PerspectiveSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer (Tome 2) by Jane AustenAuthor: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817,Language: French, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Feb 3, 2011Editor's review
This is the second volume of the French translation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, released by Project Gutenberg as a free public-domain eBook. The French rendering preserves Austen's delicate psychological portraiture and restrained irony, allowing readers to observe how the contrasting approaches of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, collide with courtship and family pressure. This volume continues from the first, focusing on the advancement of relationships and deepening misunderstandings; it is best read in sequence with Volume 1. It suits readers who wish to revisit the classic through a French translation or compare translations, and can also serve as French reading material for experiencing the language and manners of early nineteenth-century English gentry society. The free electronic edition is convenient for searching and note-taking, but it contains no annotations or introduction, so readers should bring their own background knowledge.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who want a French translation of Austen and wish to compare translations
- Learners with some French who want to read a classic in French
- Readers studying the textual transmission of Sense and Sensibility and public-domain eBooks
- Readers who enjoy nineteenth-century English courtship fiction and are willing to read both volumes in sequence
Not a good fit for
- Absolute beginners in French who need Chinese annotations
- Readers who want a complete single-volume story and prefer not to read in parts
- Advanced researchers who need detailed introductions, annotations, or scholarly translation notes
Reading tips
- Read Volume 1 first, then this volume, noting how Elinor's and Marianne's attitudes develop and echo across the two.
- Keep a pen handy to record character relationships and points of misunderstanding, so as to clarify forms of address and pronouns in the French translation.
- Compare selected passages with a Chinese or English edition to see how the translator handles Austen's ironic sentences.
- Read one or two chapters a day and jot a sentence in the margin about a character's choice; this lowers the language barrier.
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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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FAQ
Is this a complete novel or one volume of a set?
This is the second volume of the French translation of Sense and Sensibility, not a complete single volume. The title includes “Tome 2,” so readers should obtain Volume 1 and read them in order to follow the full plot and relationships.Can readers with no French read this book?
Not very suitably. The text is in French, and public-domain eBooks usually have no vocabulary notes or Chinese introduction. Absolute beginners may struggle with long sentences and older expressions; a bilingual edition or an annotated translation is a better start.Is this a free eBook from Project Gutenberg?
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About the author
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 AuthorJane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist. Details of her life are limited in publicly available sources, yet her works have circulated widely, and nineteen of them are held in this collection. Her best-known novel is Pride and Prejudice; others include Sense and Sensibility (held here in the French translation Raison et sensibilité, ou les deux manières d'aimer) and Persuasion, along with collected editions circulating in several languages. Her novels mostly draw on the daily life of the landed gentry, centering on marriage, property, and social manners, and are distinguished by fine psychological portrayal, restrained irony, and witty dialogue, revealing character and circumstance through ordinary events. Her style has influenced the later development of the English novel, and her works have been repeatedly translated and adapted, retaining a wide readership today.