Sense and Sensibility

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.' For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men. Through her heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen, Austen Jane
• Assisted by: John Mullan (Editor), Mullan John (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780198793359
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879335-9
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 15 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Romance / Historical / Regency, FICTION / Gothic, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary