EAN: 9781009432542

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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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