After losing their home, two sisters must navigate money, heartbreak and unsuitable men without losing themselves.
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After their father's death, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood lose the security of their home and must navigate money, manners and marriage with very different temperaments. Elinor guards her feelings carefully; Marianne trusts the force of passion. Suitors, secrets and social pressure test both sisters as they learn what love can ask from sense and sensibility alike.
Sense and Sensibility remain a witty, moving novel about...
Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family’s amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.
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