Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Jane Austen

Devoney Looser (Introduction)

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

• ISBN10: 014310652X
• ISBN13: 9780143106524
• Publish Date: 5 April 2012
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Penguin Classics
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 368
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780143106524

Reviews

So I started off thinking this book was meh, but once I got over the slump of the first 100 pages I (surprisingly) really enjoyed it. Keeping track of names and relations was a bit tricky at times (but no harder and actually a bit easier than Game of Thrones). Knowing that unmarried people are Miss and married people are Mrs is important was well as her use of the younger before someone's name if they are the younger sister. I enjoyed this book so much I was trying to guess the ending before I even got there and I was wrong how it turned out (but thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless). It seems that I just needed to approach this book with the right frame of mind. I plan on reading something by Austen next, probably Pride and Prejudice. My only question is whether Thomas was supposed to be a slave? It wasn't made clear in the books but from the way Austen portrays him I think that is what she is getting at.