Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen sets social snobbery against summer picnics; social rejection against the passion of real love. Her warm portrait of the relationship between two very different sisters contrasts her precise observation of vanity, selfishness and snobbery.
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Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two. This meticulously constructed story of two sisters with opposing temperaments and romantic inclinations exemplifies the distilled spirit of classicism in English literature.
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| Weight | 512 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 211 × 27 × 135 mm |
| Author | Austen, Jane |
| Publisher | Everyman |
| Imprint | Everyman |
| Cover | Hardback |
| Pages | 367 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | New Edition |
| Dewey | 823.7 (edition:21) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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