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When the widowed Mrs. Dashwood and her family are forced to move to a small cottage in the country, two very different sisters experience their first taste of love with wildly different ramifications. The impetuous Marianne falls madly in love with the handsome but duplicitous John Willoughby, whose abrupt departure for London shatters her dreams. Staid Elinors dream of a marriage to Edward Ferrers also suffers a severe setback forcing her to face a life of spinsterhood. As the girls attempt to rebuild their lives, faces from the past return to haunt them, with unexpectedly joyous results. Jane Austens classic tale of loves sought and thwarted, won and lost is an indisputable classic of world literature.

This unique edition includes hand-crafted annotations:- Historical backgroundJane Austen (1775 – 1817), one of the best authors of the English literature. The service that she has done to the literary world is immeasurable. Jane Austen is best known as a writer of romantic fiction set among landed gentry. Her works are a display of realism, biting irony and social commentary. ‘Sense and Sensibility’, first published in 1811, is one of Jane Austen’s most famous novels. Major novels by Jane Austen:- Sense and Sensibility (1811)- Pride and Prejudice (1813)- Mansfield Park (1814)- Emma (1815)- Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumously)- Persuasion (1818, posthumously)

"Austen wrote the first draft of Elinor and Marianne (later retitled Sense and Sensibility) c. 1795, when she was about 19 years old. While she had written a great deal of short fiction in her teens, Elinor and Marianne was her first full-length novel. The plot revolves around a contrast between Elinor's sense and Marianne's emotionalism; the two sisters may have been loosely based on the author and her beloved elder sister, Cassandra, with Austen casting Cassandra as the restrained and well-judging sister and herself as the emotional one." -Wikipedia.

When the Dashwood family estate passes to the eldest son John and his wife, Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret must find a new home. Moving to a cottage in Devonshire, the Dashwood women begin adjusting to a new life and a new social circle. Soon, Elinor is being courted by the gentlemanly Edward Ferrars, and Marianne finds herself torn between two suitors, the brooding Colonel Brandon and social-climbing scoundrel John Willoughby. The love and heartbreaks that they all endure are shaped by the temperament of their time and place and the sense and sensibility of their society. "As nearly flawless as any fiction could be." --Eudora Welty

Elinor and Marianne are two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. Fortunately, a distant relative offers to rent the women a cottage on his property. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, where they experience both and heartbreak.This eBook is perfectly formatted for your reader, to make sure click «Look inside».

Elinor and Marianne are two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. Fortunately, a distant relative offers to rent the women a cottage on his property.The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, where they experience both romance and heartbreak.

This book is an illustrated version of the original Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. “The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. “

This is an *ABRIDGED* reading of Sense and Sensibility. It is read by Glenda Jackson and it is part of the 'Classics Read by Celebrities' audiobook series. Jane Austen's debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly. This is the story of the Dashwood sisters, cautious, levelheaded Elinor and the impulsive, lively Marianne. Also a satire of the romantic novel, it is the timeless story of love and marriage seen through the eyes of two very different heroines, one representing sense, or logic, and the other representing sensibility, or emotionalism.