Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0140434259
- ISBN 13
- 9780140434255
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"Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkable pretty figure. Marianne was still handsomer. Her form, though not so correct as her sister's...was more striking."
As the title of Jane Austen's first published novel suggests, the difference between two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, lies not only in their appearance but also in their temperament. Yet Sense and Sensibility not only contrasts Elinor's good sense, her readiness to observe social forms and Marianne's impulsive candour, her warm but excessive sensibility; it also highlights their shared predicament in the face of a competitive marriage market. The sisters' parallel experience of love, and its threatened loss, causes both to readjust and question their own values. Jane Austen's satirical powers of observation and expression spare no one in this lively study of the constraints placed on gentry women in the eighteenth century.
Ros Ballaster's introduction to this new Penguin Classics edition discusses Sense and Sensibility as domestic drama and as critique of the wider aesthetic, social and political concerns of Romanticism.
Synopsis
Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811, it was Austen's first published novel, which she wrote under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances.
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- Fay Tsapoga (GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15
- Title
- Sense and Sensibility
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140434259
- ISBN 13
- 9780140434255
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 346
- Keywords
- Literature
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