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Sense & Sensibility, the first of Jane Austens major novels is a portrait of two very different sisters, Elinor & Marianne Dashwood. Elinor is practical & disciplined, Marianne capricious and emotional yet both share a troubled and impoverished family background and struggle to find the happiness they deserve. They have to balance their emotional needs against the harsh financial realities of the world at large. Sense & Sensibility is a chronicle of romantic misfortunes, narrated with irony and a sharp eye for hypocrisy. powerful drama of family life and growing up, the novel is at once a subtle comedy of manners and a striking critique of early nineteenth century society. As well as complete text in a clear modern typeface, the book includes 4 engaging introductions by leading scholars, together with a full colour section introducing the authors characters, locations and times. the binding is luxury cloth with gold stamping, and inlaid title panel , coloured edges and a ribbon marker. In all a gift edition that does justice to the beauty of the text.

Jane Austen was born in 1775. The seventh child of a country rector, she lived at Stevenson in Hampshire until 1801, when she moved to Bath, then to Southampton. Her father died in 1805 and from that time the Austens settled in Chawton. From a young age Jane entertained her family with stories and plays; by 23 she had written early versions of her first three major novels, Senses and sensibility, Pride & Prejudice and Northanger Abbey, though they were not published for several years. Twelve years later she started work on Mansfield Park; Emma & Persuasion, her last complete novel , soon followed. Jane Austen died at Winchester in 1817