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  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099511557
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $18.99

Sense and Sensibility

  • Jane Austen




'\"I am afraid,\" replied Elinor, \"that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety\" - Sense & Sensibility

‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’

Discover the beloved story of sisters, love and society that launched Jane Austen’s career.

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099511557
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $18.99

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Praise for Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen is my favourite author

E.M. Forster

The technique of [Jane Austen's novels] is beyond praise.... Her mastery of the art she chose, or that chose her, is complete

Elizabeth Bowen

The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste

Virginia Woolf

Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen

Alexander McCall Smith

For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta Stone of literature

Anna Quindlen

How could these novels ever seem remote...the gaiety is unextinguished today, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished, as comedies they are irresistibly and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be

Eudora Welty

That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with

Sir Walter Scott

Jane Austen is my favourite author

E.M. Forster

The technique of [Jane Austen's novels] is beyond praise.... Her mastery of the art she chose, or that chose her, is complete

Elizabeth Bowen

The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste

Virginia Woolf

Like Irvine Welsh, I am a great admirer of Jane Austen

Alexander McCall Smith

For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta Stone of literature

Anna Quindlen

How could these novels ever seem remote...the gaiety is unextinguished today, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is still sweet, the sparkle undiminished, as comedies they are irresistibly and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be

Eudora Welty

That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements of feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with

Sir Walter Scott

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