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Sense and SensibilitySense and Sensibility
Two sisters, the prudent Elinor and the passionate Marianne Dashwood, are left with little money and fewer prospects, and must each learn what it costs to love, one guarding her heart, the other spending it freely. Austen's first published novel, a comedy of feeling and restraint.
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The warmest of Austen's novels and a perfect double portrait of head and heart, sharp about money, marriage, and the danger of feeling too much in a world that prizes composure.
SettingRegency England, 1790s
In Regency England a genteel woman without a fortune was almost wholly dependent on marriage, and an unguarded attachment could ruin her. Sense was survival; sensibility was a luxury few could afford.