Sense and Sensibility (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Austen
- First Published: 1811
- Type of Work: Novel of Manners
- Genres: Long fiction, Fiction of manners, Bourgeois fiction
- Subjects: Values, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Middle classes, Marriage, Betrayal, Manners or customs, Social life, Emotions, England or English people, Women’s issues, Sisters, Duty, Greed, Human behavior, Naivete
- Locales: Devonshire, England
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is, as its title suggests, a study of opposites. The novel centers on two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The first is serene and reasonable, the second impetuous and emotional; but they are devoted to each other and to their mother and younger sister. Since their father’s death and their half-brother’s succession to the estate, they all have retired to Devonshire.
There Marianne meets Willoughby, a charming but amoral gentleman. She falls ecstatically in love. He trifles with her affections, runs off to London, and engages himself to an heiress....
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