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Sense and Sensibility Mass market paperbound - 1997

by Jane Austen; Introduction by Margaret Drabble


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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

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Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817.

As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.

Margaret Drabble is recipient of many prestigious awards for her writing, which includes works of nonfiction as well as numerous novels.

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  • Title Sense and Sensibility
  • Author Jane Austen; Introduction by Margaret Drabble
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 317
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Classics, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date August 1, 1997
  • ISBN 9780451525895 / 0451525892
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.1 x 4.32 x 0.98 in (18.03 x 10.97 x 2.49 cm)
  • Reading level 560
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, England
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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