Cover of The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

This engaging and beautiful book includes the complete Academy Award-winning script and Thompson's own diaries detailing the production of the film, reviewed by Stanley Kauffmann in The New Republic as "vivid, funny, and gamy"

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 283 pages

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