SENSE AND SENSIBILITY - Penguin Classics

Two sisters of oppositing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen's dramatically human narrative Sense & Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, is the perfection of sense. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, is the embodiment of sensibility. To each come the sorroe of unhappy love. Elinor desires a man who is promised to another. Marianne loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters - and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sentibility and sensibility gives way to sense. jane auten's authentic representation of early-nineteenth-century middle-class provincial life, written with forceful insight and gentle irony, makes her novels the enduring works on the mores and manners of her time.