num_pages: 367
description: Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereMarianne and Elinor — two young women so utterly unlike each other – both undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them is the way each expresses her suffering. Marianne –young, impetuous, ardent – falls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby. While her sister, Elinor — wiser, more sensible, more self-controlled — masks her despair when it appears that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happily—but not until Elinor’s “sense” and Marianne’s “sensibility” have equally worked to reveal the profound emotional life that runs beneath the surface of Austen’s immaculate and irresistible art.In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those who believe that Jane Austen’s novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. 
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: 1153715
places: London, England, United Kingdom, England, Sussex, England, Devon, England
publisher: Everyman's Library