Sense and Sensibility  (English, Paperback, Austen Jane)

Sense and Sensibility is counted among the best classic novels in English literature. It is a poignant romantic fiction, a story of two sisters who experience the rising and ebbing tides of emotions like sorrow, betrayal and love.

Summary of the Book

This masterpiece of Jane Austen has been adapted into TV shows and major motion pictures several times. It was penned by Austen under the pseudonym, A Lady. Sense and Sensibility is the story of two gorgeous Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. It is set in England between 1792 and 1797. Mrs. Dashwood and her three lovely daughters have to leave Norland and move to Barton Park. They have no other choice. Elinor is the eldest of the sisters, who is left lovesick, as she has to live far away from her lover Edward. But the sisters do end up making new friends in Barton Park eventually. Colonel Brandon is a 35 year old bachelor, who is mesmerized by Marianne’s prettiness. Marianne is an impulsive seventeen-year-old, who worships the very existence of romantic idealism. She is captivated by the exceptionally handsome John Willoughby. In the meanwhile, Anne and Lucy Steele come to visit the Dashwoods. The two egocentric sisters tell Elinor that Lucy is covertly engaged to Edward Ferrars. Elinor finds herself inconsolable, but she keeps her misery at guard so that her family isn’t wrecked emotionally even more. Sense and Sensibility describes the profoundest of human emotions intensely.

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in England in the year 1775. Her books continue to sell across the world to the present day. Austen penned twenty-nine works from the year 1787 to 1793 in three bound notebooks, it is today known as Juvenilia. From the year 1793, Austen started writing more erudite pieces. She published First Impressions in 1796, and later Pride and Prejudice. Some of her other notable works are Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. She passed away at the age of 41.