Sense and Sensibility Mass market paperback - 1995
by Jane Austen
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- Title Sense and Sensibility
- Author Jane Austen
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Movie Tie-In
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0451187903I3N00
- ISBN 9780451187901 / 0451187903
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 6.86 x 4.17 x 0.91 in (17.42 x 10.59 x 2.31 cm)
- Reading level 560
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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.
Summary
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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First Edition Identification
The novel sold out its first print run of 750 copies in the middle of 1813, but it had a second print run later that year.