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Sense And Sensibility

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Sense And Sensibility

Contributors:

By (Author) Jane Austen

ISBN:

9781857150513

Publisher:

Everyman

Imprint:

Everyman's Library

Publication Date:

24th April 1992

UK Publication Date:

19th March 1992

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

823.7

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

408

Dimensions:

Width 135mm, Height 212mm, Spine 26mm

Weight:

508g

Description

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later, was completed in 1797 at the age of twenty-two. This meticulously constructed story of two sisters with opposing temperaments and romantic inclinations exemplifies the distilled spirit of classicism in English literature.

Author Bio

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.

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