Sense And Sensibility
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the rolling countryside of Regency England, two sisters stand at the crossroads of love, loss, and social expectation — one ruled by reason, the other by passion. Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility chronicles the fortunes of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who, after their father's death leaves them in reduced circumstances, must navigate a world where a woman's worth is measured almost entirely by her matrimonial prospects. Elinor, the embodiment of prudent restraint, quietly suffers her own heartbreak while managing her family's dignity; Marianne, gloriously romantic and dangerously open-hearted, pursues feeling above all else — with devastating consequences. Austen's razor-sharp wit and surgical social commentary elevate this seemingly domestic tale into a profound meditation on the tension between emotion and reason, vulnerability and self-possession. Written with an irony so fine it cuts like silk, the novel argues that neither pure sense nor pure sensibility alone can lead a woman — or indeed any person — safely through the treacheries of the heart and society. This Penguin English Library edition presents one of literature's most enduring works in an accessible format that has introduced generations of readers to Austen's genius. Whether you are returning to its pages or discovering it for the first time, the final question it poses — how much of ourselves must we sacrifice to belong to the world — lingers long after the last chapter is closed.
Author: Jane Austen
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the rolling countryside of Regency England, two sisters stand at the crossroads of love, loss, and social expectation — one ruled by reason, the other by passion. Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility chronicles the fortunes of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who, after their father's death leaves them in reduced circumstances, must navigate a world where a woman's worth is measured almost entirely by her matrimonial prospects. Elinor, the embodiment of prudent restraint, quietly suffers her own heartbreak while managing her family's dignity; Marianne, gloriously romantic and dangerously open-hearted, pursues feeling above all else — with devastating consequences. Austen's razor-sharp wit and surgical social commentary elevate this seemingly domestic tale into a profound meditation on the tension between emotion and reason, vulnerability and self-possession. Written with an irony so fine it cuts like silk, the novel argues that neither pure sense nor pure sensibility alone can lead a woman — or indeed any person — safely through the treacheries of the heart and society. This Penguin English Library edition presents one of literature's most enduring works in an accessible format that has introduced generations of readers to Austen's genius. Whether you are returning to its pages or discovering it for the first time, the final question it poses — how much of ourselves must we sacrifice to belong to the world — lingers long after the last chapter is closed.