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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679409874

ISBN-139780679409878

eBay Product ID (ePID)56385

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Book TitleSense and Sensibility : Introduction by Peter Conrad

Number of Pages408 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

TopicClassics, Literary, Romance / Historical / Victorian

GenreFiction

AuthorJane Austen

Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight17.8 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN91-053182

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"[Sense and Sensibility] is a subtler and a more searching novel than [its critics'] blunt instruments of perception have been capable of registering, because it deals not with the categories of romantic philosophy but with the transformation of those categories into ways of feeling and behaving. It explores the unsettling romantic alteration of the internal life." from the Introduction by Peter Conrad, "[ Sense and Sensibility ] is a subtler and a more searching novel than [its critics'] blunt instruments of perception have been capable of registering, because it deals not with the categories of romantic philosophy but with the transformation of those categories into ways of feeling and behaving. It explores the unsettling romantic alteration of the internal life." from the Introduction by Peter Conrad

Dewey Decimal823.7

SynopsisIn its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young women in love, Sense and Sensibility is the answer to those who believe that Jane Austen's novels, despite their perfection of form and tone, lack strong feeling. Its two heroines, Marianne and Elinor--so utterly unlike each other-both undergo the most violent passions when they are separated from the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extraordinary book its complexity and brilliance, is the way each expresses her suffering: Marianne-young, impetuous, ardent-falls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby; while her sister, Elinor--wiser, more sensible, more self-controlled--masks her despair when it appears that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happily--but not until Elinor's "sense" and Marianne's "sensibility" have equally worked to reveal the profound emotional life that runs beneath the surface of Austen's immaculate and irresistible art.

LC Classification NumberPR4034.S4 1992