Read Gevoel en verstand in Dutchwith every sentence explained

Gevoel en verstand by Jane Austen was first published in 1811. In Passage you read the full text in the Dutch translation by Gonne Loman-van Uildriks, marked advanced and filed under romance. It runs to about 124,400 words.

Two sisters. Two hearts. One wise, one passionate — and neither spared by love.

When Mr Dashwood dies, his widow and three daughters lose their grand home at Norland and must move to a modest cottage in Devonshire. Elinor, the eldest, hides her feelings behind good sense and quiet self-control, even when the gentle Edward Ferrars seems to slip out of reach. Marianne, seventeen, believes in love at first sight, romantic poetry and saying exactly what she feels.

When the dashing John Willoughby carries Marianne home through the rain after a fall, it seems her dreams are coming true. But secrets, money and family pride are never far away, and both sisters will learn how much a heart can bear.

Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility (1811), is a witty, warm and wise story of love and sisterhood. This classic Dutch translation is a perfect way to read a much-loved story in a new language.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Dutch. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate Dutch book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.