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Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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In Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, whose contrasting personalities and approaches to love and life navigate the challenges of 19th century society. Elinor's restraint and Marianne's passionate nature offer a compelling exploration of love, loss, and social expectation in a world where money and status dictate one's prospects.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers interested in classic literature, historical romance, and social commentary from the Regency era.

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In Jane Austen's first published novel, her portrait of two heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope offers a powerful analysis of how women were shaped by the claustrophobic society they had to survive. This new edition includes a new introduction, and revised notes and bibliography.

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'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.'

For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections.

Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men.

Through her heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive.

Sense and Sensibility explores themes of love and social standing in a society where the influences of wealth and status dictate the direction of life and love.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198793359

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Edition: 3rd Revised edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by John Mullan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 236g

Pages: 336

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's  Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's  The Lives of the Poets for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of  What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012),  Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and  How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).

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