Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Random House, Jul 6, 2010 - Fiction - 384 pages

‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’

Discover the beloved story of sisters, love and society that launched Jane Austen’s career.

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 18
• Section 3: 27
• Section 4: 31
• Section 5: 35
• Section 6: 39
• Section 7: 51
• Section 8: 72
• Section 9: 86
• Section 10: 91
• Section 11: 96
• Section 12: 112
• Section 13: 121
• Section 14: 133
• Section 15: 140
• Section 16: 152
• Section 17: 167
• Section 18: 172
• Section 19: 211
• Section 20: 220
• Section 21: 228
• Section 22: 235
• Section 23: 247
• Section 24: 260
• Section 25: 282
• Section 26: 290
• Section 27: 321
• Section 28: 336
• Section 29: 360

About the author

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sense and Sensibility
• Author: Jane Austen
• Publisher: Random House, 2010
• ISBN: 1407090720, 9781407090726
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics