| Sense and Sensibility Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Drabble, Margaret (Introduction by), Balogh, Mary (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451531019 ISBN-13: 9780451531018 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $5.36 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: In its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, "Sense and Sensibility" is the answer to those critics and readers who believe that Jane Austen's novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroines--so utterly unlike each other-both undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extroardinary book its complexity and brilliance, is the "way "each expresses her suffering: Marianne-young, impetuous, ardent-falls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby; while her sister, Elinor--wiser, more sensible, more self-controlled--masks her despair when it appears that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happily--but not until Elinor's "sense" and Marianne's "sensibility" have equally worked to reveal the profound emotional life that runs beneath the surface of Austen's immaculate and irresistible art. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - Historical - Regency - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012372533 |
| Lexile Measure: 1180 |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 4.2" W x 6.8" (0.45 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen's dramatically human narrative. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each comes the sorrow of unhappy love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters--and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense. Jane Austen's authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, written with forceful insight and gentle irony, makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time. With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble and an Afterword by Mary Balogh |