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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2025
      May 2025
      ISBN:
      9781009432535
      9781009432542
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009432535
      Dimensions:
      (203 x 127 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 384 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      The Cambridge Jane Austen
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    The Cambridge Jane Austen
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    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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