Sense and Sensibility

Reading time: about 8.5 h
Length: 119,512 words · 234 pages
Structure: 50 chapters
Language: English
Era: Romantic

Two sisters, left with their mother in reduced circumstances after their father’s death, face the marriage market of Regency England with opposite temperaments: Elinor governs her feelings; Marianne lives by them. Jane Austen’s first published novel appeared in 1811 “By a Lady”, at the author’s own financial risk; it sold out its first edition.

The book is the first of her comedies of money and manners, and already shows the exactness of dialogue and the moral seriousness beneath the wit that mark all her work.

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Jane Austen

1775–1817 · Romantic

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was born at Steventon, Hampshire, the seventh of eight children of a country clergyman, and spent her life in the south of England — Steventon, Bath, Southampton and finally Chawton, where she revised and wrote the six novels on which her reputation rests: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and, posthumously, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1817). All were published anonymously in her lifetime. She died at Winchester at forty-one.

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