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Sense and sensibility

Summary: Novel tells the story of the impoverished Dashwood sisters. The open and enthusiastic Marianne becomes infatuated with John Willoughby, who seems to be a romantic lover but is in reality an unscrupulous fortune hunter. He deserts her for an heiress, and she eventually makes a sensible marriage with Colonel Brandon, a staid and settled bachelor. Marianne's older sister, the prudent and discreet Elinor, is constant toward her lover, Edward Ferrars, and, after some distressing vicissitudes, marries him.

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  • ISBN: 0141439661 (1995 Penguin Classics)
  • ISBN: 0140434259 (1995 Penguin Classics trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0140430474 (1969 Penguin English Library)
  • ISBN: 0330029495 (1950? Pantheon Books)
  • ISBN: 9780141439662 (1995 Penguin Classics)
  • ISBN: 9780140430479 (1969 Penguin English Library)
  • ISBN: 97803300294910 (1950? Pantheon Books)
  • ISBN: 9780140434255 (1995 Penquin Classics trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780307290939 (2006 Premier Classics pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) ; cm.
    print
  • Publisher: New York : New American Library, c1997.

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General Note:
First published in 1811.
1969 Penguin English Library edition is edited with an introduction by Tony Tanner.
1995 Penguin Classics edition is editied with an introduction by Ros Ballaster ; with the original Penguin Classics introduction by Tony Tanner.
Subject: Young women -- England -- Fiction
Courtship -- Fiction
Sisters -- Fiction
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Classic fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is also the author of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.

Ros Ballaster is Professor of 18th Century Studies at Mansfield College, Oxford.

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