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Sense and Sensibility: Movie Tie In Edition
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Sense and Sensibility: Movie Tie In Edition Paperback - 1995

by Jane Austen

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  • Title Sense and Sensibility: Movie Tie In Edition
  • Author Jane Austen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Movie Tie-In
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995-12-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000020339
  • 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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About this book

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.

From the publisher

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.

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. 

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