Sense and Sensibility (World's Classics S.)

by Margaret Anne Doody (Introduction), Margaret Anne Doody (Introduction), Jane Austen (Author), Jane Austen (Author), James Kinsley (Editor)

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  Originally titled Elinor and Marianne , Sense and Sensibility was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published. The contrasting personalities of two sisters are the centre of the story, but they are supported by a wealth of satirically portrayed minor characters. This version of the text is edited by James Kinsley from R.W.Chapman's Oxford edition, and includes notes by Claire Lamont, who is senior lecturer in English literature at Newcastle University. The new introduction is by Margaret Anne Doody whose previous publications include studies of Samuel Richardson and Frances Burney, as well as two novels.

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  Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. 'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age, learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival. This book, the first of Austen's novels to be published, remains as fresh a cautionary tale today as it ever was.