Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen · 1811
Classics · ranked #2 in category
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood embody two opposing temperaments — sense and sensibility — as they navigate love, heartbreak and financial precarity after their father's death leaves them dependent on others' goodwill. Austen's first published novel is a sophisticated study of what it costs women to feel and what it costs them not to.
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- 1811 · 1810s
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