Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
1775 – 1817
ENPublic Domain
Summary
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen is a novel published in 1811. When the Dashwood sisters are forced from their family estate into reduced circumstances, two very different personalities face the trials of love and heartbreak. Elinor embodies prudent sense while Marianne follows passionate sensibility. As romantic attachments form and unravel, both sisters must navigate social expectations, financial realities, and the painful gap between appearance and truth in matters of the heart. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Subjects
- Domestic fiction
- England — Fiction
- England — Social life and customs — 19th century — Fiction
- Gentry — England — Fiction
- Inheritance and succession — Fiction
- Love stories
- Mate selection — Fiction
- Regency fiction
- Sisters — Fiction
- Social classes — Fiction
- Young women — Fiction