num_pages: 367
description: In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those critics and readers who believe that Jane Austen’s novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroines–so utterly unlike each other–both undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extraordinary book its complexity and brilliance, 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 Jane Austen’s immaculate and irresistible art.
language: English
title: Sense and Sensibility
titlecomplete: Sense and Sensibility
characters: Colonel Brandon, Margaret Dashwood, Robert Ferrars, Lady Middleton, Anne Steele, Sir John Middleton, Elinor Dashwood, Lucy Steele, John Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood, Edward Ferrars, Mrs. Dashwood, Mrs. Jennings, John Willoughby, Fanny Dashwood
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Classic Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 1153753
places: Devon, England, England, London, England, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Everyman's Library