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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen author Tony Tanner editor Ros Ballaster editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:6th Nov '08

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Sense and Sensibility cover

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.

"As nearly flawless as any fiction could be."
—Eudora Welty

ISBN: 9780141040370

Dimensions: 205mm x 138mm x 37mm

Weight: 577g

448 pages