Sense And Sensibility

Author: Jane Austen

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  • : $15.00 AUD
  • : 9780099511557
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
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  • : 0.286
  • : June 2007
  • : 14.99
  • : November 2007
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  • : Jane Austen
  • : Vintage Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 710
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  • : en
  • : 384
  • : General & literary fiction; Classic fiction
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Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

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'"I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety" - Sense & Sensibility

Author description

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.