Sense and Sensibility: Library Edition

Austen, Jane; Ballaster, Rosalind

ISBN 10: 0140434259 / ISBN 13: 9780140434255

Published by Penguin USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1995

About this Item

Edited with and introduction by Ros Ballaster. Tanning. Corner crease.

Seller Inventory # 003960

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sense and Sensibility: Library Edition
• Publisher: Penguin USA, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140434259
• ISBN 13: 9780140434255
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Fiction

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Synopsis

The Dashwood sisters are very different from each other in appearance and temperament; Elinor's good sense and readiness to observe social forms contrast with Marianne's impulsive candor and warm but excessive sensibility. Both struggle to maintain their integrity and find happiness in the face of a competitive marriage market. The basis of the Columbia film, starring Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant.

About the Author

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 1817.

As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.