num_pages: 4
description: Published in 1811, Sense and Sensibility has delighted generations of readers with its masterfully crafted portrait of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Forced to leave their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne must rely on making good marriages as their means of support. But unscrupulous cads, meddlesome matriarchs, and various guileless and artful women impinge on their chances for love and happiness. The novelist Elizabeth Bowen wrote, "The technique of [Jane Austen's novels] is beyond praise....Her mastery of the art she chose, or that chose her, is complete."This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition contains a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.
language: English
title: Sense and Sensibility
titlecomplete: Sense and Sensibility
characters: Fanny Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood, Mrs. Jennings, Anne Steele, Sir John Middleton, Elinor Dashwood, Mrs. Dashwood, John Dashwood, Edward Ferrars, John Willoughby, Margaret Dashwood, Lucy Steele, Colonel Brandon, Robert Ferrars, Lady Middleton
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, British Literature, Classics, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 1153563
places: London, England, United Kingdom, England, Sussex, England, Devon, England
publisher: Penguin Global