Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane AustenUnfairly deprived of their family inheritance by the grasping Mrs John Dashwood and her husband, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their mother find themselves in greatly reduced circumstances. Compelled to leave Norland in Sussex for Barton Cottage in Devonshire, the two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne, whose sweet radiance and open nature charm the roguish John Willoughby, is soon deeply in love. Elinor, whose disposition

from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writersKoji

after an arduous trek from Nepal

where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men

a portrait of a hypocritical society

and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone

her older sister Makiko

She examines shared concepts such as qi and prana

Set in a seedy Tokyo of bomb sites

He then turns his gaze to events in the East

Patanjalis Yoga Sutras

this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion

is unwanted by his family