Sense and Sensibility (The Penguin English Library)

Jane Austen

ISBN 10: 0147509068 / ISBN 13: 9780147509062

Editore: Penguin Classics, 2013

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• Titolo: Sense and Sensibility (The Penguin English Library)
• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0147509068
• ISBN 13: 9780147509062
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.