
Sense and Sensibility
Summary
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen is a novel published in 1811. When the Dashwood sisters are forced from their family estate into reduced circumstances, they face romantic trials that test their contrasting natures. Sensible Elinor guards her feelings while passionate Marianne wears her heart openly. Both encounter love, disappointment, and betrayal as suitors prove honorable or false. Through heartbreak and revelation, the sisters must navigate society's demands while discovering what truly matters in matters of the heart. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Rights & provenance
Public domain in the USA.
EU distribution not verified
Subjects (16)
- Domestic fiction
- England -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Social classes -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Classics of Literature
- Category: Novels
- Category: Romance
- PR
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Regency fiction
- Gentry -- England -- Fiction
- Mate selection -- Fiction



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