- 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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