Sense and Sensibility

Hardback

Main Details

Title Sense and Sensibility
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jane Austen
Introduction by Ros Ballaster
Introduction by Tony Tanner
Notes by Ros Ballaster
SeriesPenguin Clothbound Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 204,Width 138
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141040370
ClassificationsDewey:823.7
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 6 November 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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.

Author Biography

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is also the author of Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Ros Ballaster is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Mansfield College, Oxford. Tony Tanner was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Cambridge.

Reviews

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