100% NZ-owned | 80,000+ Books In NZ 📚

Order Today and You Could Win a Year of Free Books! 📚✨

Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen
Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
0.0 (0 reviews)
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Summary
Sense and Sensibility follows the lives of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they navigate love, heartbreak, and society's expectations. Set in 19th-century England, the story contrasts Elinor's sensible nature with Marianne's emotional approach, highlighting their growth and resilience amidst financial hardship and romantic entanglements. Through their journeys, the novel explores themes of love, family, and the balance between reason and emotion.
Read More
Format: Hardback
$1999
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 1 business day

Found a better price? Request a price match

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might enjoy this book if you appreciate tales of romance, societal norms, and the contrasting experiences of two sisters navigating love and heartbreak in early 19th-century England. With a focus on the tension between reason and emotion, it's a classic story full of wit, charm, and keen social observation.

Book Hero thinking about your next read

Sense and Sensibility

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

Love and betrayal are the key themes of the comic satire Sense and Sensibility, a much-loved, and much-filmed evocation of romantic anxiety. Mrs Dashwood and her daughters live on the edge of poverty, desperate to marry well, for love at best, for sustenance at least, balancing the need for common sense against the desires and pressures of frantic emotion.

Marianne falls for the reckless Willoughby, Elinor falls in love with the shy Edward, but after the death of Mr Dashwood, the family's fate seems cast from their control. In the end, Colonel Brandon successfully courts Marianne, and Edward meekly asks for the hand of Elinor, heralding the happy-ever-after for both couples.

Author: In the history of literature, few female authors have attained the enduring popularity of Jane Austen (1775-1817). Her exquisite, finely tuned novels have captivated readers for two hundred years, and her reputation shows no signs of diminishing, fuelled by high-profile TV and film adaptations of her writing. The substance of her work, and the source of her appeal, is quintessentially English. She takes the reader into the subtle cultural, linguistic, and romantic codes of nineteenth-century English society, and in doing so creates some of literature's favourite heroes and heroines.

Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics

View all

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781787556973

Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 September 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing

Edition: New edition

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Judith John

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 93.0mm

Height: 150.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 480

Collections

Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction Romance Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics

About the Author

In the history of literature, few female authors have attained the enduring popularity of Jane Austen (1775-1817). Her exquisite, finely tuned novels have captivated readers for two hundred years, and her reputation shows no signs of diminishing, fuelled by high-profile TV and film adaptations of her writing. The substance of her work, and the source of her appeal, is quintessentially English. She takes the reader into the subtle cultural, linguistic and romantic codes of nineteenth-century English society, and in doing so creates some of literature's favourite heroes and heroines. Judith John (Glossary) is a writer and editor specializing in literature and history. She has worked as an editor on major educational projects, including English A: Literature for the Pearson International Baccalaureate series. Judith's major research interests include Romantic and Gothic literature, and Renaissance drama.

Also by Jane Austen

View all

More from General Fiction

View all

Why buy from us?

Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!

Service & Delivery

Service & Delivery

Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.

Auckland Bookstore

Auckland Bookstore

We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.

Our Gifting Service

Our Gifting Service

Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.