Sense and Sensibility Revised Edition

by Austen, Jane; Drabble, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780451525895
• ISBN10: 0451525892
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

The story centres on the personalities of the two sisters, whose contrasting temperaments are examined as they undergo comparable experiences in the loss of the men they love, it rejoices also in a wealth of minor characters such as the comic Mrs Jennings and Sir John and Lady Middleton, drawn with consummate satiric skill.

Author Biography

Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire, England, to George Austen, the rector of Steventon, and his wife, Cassandra. Like many girls of her day, she was educated at home, and began her literary career by writing parodies and skits for the amusement of her large family. Although Austen did not marry, she did have several suitors and once accepted a marriage proposal-but only for one evening. Austen never lived apart from her family, but her work nevertheless shows a worldly and wise sensibility. Her novels include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, published together posthumously in 1818. Austen died in 1817. Margaret Drabble is the highly acclaimed novelist, biographer, and editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Her novels include The Gates of Ivory, The Radiant Way, Realms of Gold, and The Needle's Eye. She lives in London.