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AUSTEN JANE SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

Money and destructive passion overshadow romance in this darkly humorous novel of sexual
manoeuvring and greed. Appearing anonymously in 1811 under the attribution 'By A Lady'  Sense
and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work. Uniquely among her novels it has two
heroines: stoical Elinor  the sensitive consciousness of the book  representative of 'sense' 
and flamboyant  self-indulgent Marianne  whose emotional adventures deliver energy and zest 
representative of 'sensibility'. The novel is an edgy contrapuntal tale of different
personalities and experiences  revealing much about the constraints and difficulties of a
woman's life. In addition  the book offers a remarkable window onto the material culture of
Austen's time  it includes some memorable bric-a-brac such as an ornamented toothpick case and
some fine breakfast china quarrelled over by rich and poor relatives. Prefaces and explanatory
endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate cultural  historical and literary context  bringing
Jane Austen's world to life.

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