Sense and Sensibility: The Collector's Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009432542)

Money and destructive passion overshadow romance in this darkly humorous novel of sexual manoeuvring and greed. Appearing anonymously in 1811 under the attribution 'By A Lady', Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work. Uniquely among her novels it has two heroines: stoical Elinor, the sensitive consciousness of the book, representative of 'sense', and flamboyant, self-indulgent Marianne, whose emotional adventures deliver energy and zest, representative of 'sensibility'. The novel is an edgy contrapuntal tale of different personalities and experiences, revealing much about the constraints and difficulties of a woman's life. In addition, the book offers a remarkable window onto the material culture of Austen's time; it includes some memorable bric-a-brac such as an ornamented toothpick case and some fine breakfast china quarrelled over by rich and poor relatives. Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

Author: Jane Austen
ISBN-10: 1009432540
ISBN-13: 9781009432542
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2025
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.90d