Why should you read Sense and Sensibility? For the MEN OF MYSTERY (please read the following text in the trailer narrator dramatic voice):
Meet Edward Ferrars, who is strangely depressed for the whole book. Is it because his sister doesn’t want him to marry Elinor? Or because he is secretly engaged to Lucy Steele!!! How will this poor man escape the clutches of one of the best schemers in Jane Austen?
Then we have John Willoughby, he’s dashing, he’s gallant, he gives his horses highly suggestive names, and he is clearly in love with Marianne. How can anything go wrong? Could there be a terrible secret in his past? Who is Eliza Williams anyway?
Also, Mr. Palmer. Is he a Mr. Bennet clone (or chronologically speaking, Mr. Bennet would be a clone of him) or does he secretly have a heart of gold? Find out when the Dashwood girls take an unexpected trip to Cleveland.
Robert Ferrars. Why is he so obsessed with cottages and toothpick cases? These questions are NEVER ANSWERED (feel free to dream the answer up yourself).
And then, the most MYSTERIOUS man of them all, Colonel Brandon. Does he have a natural child? Does he wear a flannel waistcoat because he is old or because he’s a war hero? Is he just sad or does he have a fascinating tragic backstory? The only REAL ROMANTIC HERO in Jane Austen’s works, and he even fights a duel!
All of this, plus a woman acting as the parent to her entire family, including her mother, and her drama queen sister. The happiness of these women depends on the the kindness and goodness of the men around them.
Sense and Sensibility: The Men Have Secrets that can DESTROY THEIR LIVES