Sense & Sensibility" is Jane Austen's first published work meticulously constructed & sparkling with her unique wit. This " Penguin Classics" edition is edited with a critical introduction by Ros Ballaster. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve & 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 & 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
- & its threatened loss
- the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status & money govern the rules of love. This edition also
Includes:: explanatory notes textual variants between first & second edition & Tony Tanner's introduction to the original " Penguin Classic" edition. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age embarking on what is possibly her best-known work " Pride & Prejudice" at the age of 22. She was the author of " Sense & Sensibility" " Pride & Prejudice" " Emma" " Persuasion" " Mansfield Park" & " Northanger Abbey". If you liked " Sense & Sensibility" you may enjoy Wilkie Collins' " No Name" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Miss Austen was surely a great novelist. What she did she did perfectly. Her work as far as it goes is faultless". (Anthony Trollope)."