Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Overview

Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are both seeking husbands, but neither one of them is having much luck. Calm and composed Elinor is wildly different from Marianne, who is emotional and passionate. They and their mother must move to a small cottage after their elder brother inherits their father's estate. Both sisters prove unlucky in their love interests, and must navigate their way through secrets and betrayals.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014606318
Publisher:	Smashbooks
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	880 KB

About the Author

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary has gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.

Date of Birth:

December 16, 1775

Date of Death:

July 18, 1817

Place of Birth:

Village of Steventon in Hampshire, England

Place of Death:

Winchester, Hampshire, England

Education:

Taught at home by her father