Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Austen, Jane

 
9780198793359: Sense and Sensibility (Oxford World's Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0198793359 ISBN 13: 9780198793359
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2019

Synopsis

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.'

For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by money and self-interest, the Dashwood sisters have neither fortune nor connections. Concerned for others and for social proprieties, Elinor is ill-equipped to compete with self-centred fortune-hunters like Lucy Steele, whilst Marianne's unswerving belief in the truth of her own feelings makes her more dangerously susceptible to the designs of unscrupulous men.

Through her heroines' parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, Jane Austen offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive.

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About the Author

John Mullan is Professor of English at University College London. He has previously edited editions of Daniel Defoe's Roxana (2008) and Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Poets for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of What Matters in Jane Austen? (Bloomsbury, 2012), Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature (Faber & Faber, 2008), and How Novels Work (OUP, 2006).


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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198793359
ISBN 13 
9780198793359
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
336
Editor
Mullan John