LOL Library of Classics Volume I: Sense & Sensibility: An SMS Language Translation

by Jane Austen, Stephen Napolitano

Overview

Jane Austen was only nineteen years old when she wrote Sense & Sensibility. In other words, if young Jane were alive today, she would have a latte in one hand and an iPhone in the other. With that image in mind, I have undertaken the delicate but rewarding process of translating her delightful novel about the Dashwood sisters into the modern parlance young women of nineteen use today, SMS text speech. Excerpt: "Well, then, LET something b done 4 them; bt THAT something need not b 3 thousand pounds. Consider," she texted, "that when the money is once parted w, it never can return. Ur sisters will marry, & it will b gone 4 ever. If, indeed, it could b restored 2 our poor lil boy-" "Y, 2 b sure," texted her husband, v gravely, "that wud make gr8 difference. The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was parted w. If he should have a numerous family, 4 instance, it wud b a v convenient addition."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481943727
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/16/2013
Series:	Lol Library of Classics , #1
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English author known primarily for her six major novels set among the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Considered defining works of the Regency Era and counted among the best–loved classics of English literature, Austen's books include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. The latter two were published after her death. "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." – Jane Austen

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father