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  • Published: 15 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307390769
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 784
  • RRP: $39.99

The Annotated Sense and Sensibility




From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility that makes this tale of two sisters in love an even more enjoyable read.

Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,000 annotations on facing pages, including:

• Explanations of historical context
• Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings
• Definitions and clarifications
• Literary comments and analysis
• Multiple maps of England and London
• An introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of events
• More than 100 informative illustrations

Filled with fascinating information about everything from the rules of inheritance that could leave a wealthy man’s daughters almost penniless to the fashionable cult of sensibility that Austen so brilliantly satirizes, David M. Shapard’s Annotated Sense and Sensibility is an entertaining and edifying delight.

  • Published: 15 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780307390769
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 784
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Jane Austen

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.

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