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Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen
Margaret Drabble
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Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen’s dramatically human narrative.
Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love.
 
Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters—and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen’s authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, written with forceful insight and gentle irony, makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time.
With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Mary Balogh 
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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 1, 2008

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  • ISBN: 9781101077818
  • Release date: July 1, 2008

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  • ISBN: 9781101077818
  • File size: 484 KB
  • Release date: July 1, 2008

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Romance Historical Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:8.4
Lexile® Measure:1180
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:7-10

Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen’s dramatically human narrative.
Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love.
 
Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters—and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen’s authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, written with forceful insight and gentle irony, makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time.
With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Mary Balogh 
Expand title description text
Classic Literature Fiction Romance Historical Fiction