Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen is a reissue published by Macmillan Collector’s Library on July 19, 2016. This edition features 464 pages and is designed for book lovers, showcasing a beautifully bound pocket-sized format with real cloth, high-quality paper, ribbon markers, and gilt edges. The narrative follows two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, who embody contrasting temperaments as they navigate the complexities of love and societal expectations in early nineteenth-century England.
Readers will find a rich exploration of family life and the challenges of growing up, as well as a subtle comedy of manners intertwined with a critique of the era’s social norms. Elinor represents practicality and restraint, while Marianne embodies emotional depth and sentimentality, leading to their respective romantic trials. This edition is illustrated by Hugh Thomson and includes an afterword by Henry Hitchings, enhancing the reading experience of this classic work that delves into themes of romance and the intricacies of women’s lives during the Victorian period.
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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.
Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibility, loses her heart to a scoundrel who jilts her. A powerful drama of family life and growing up, Sense and Sensibility is at once a subtle comedy of manners and a striking critique of early nineteenth-century society.
Gorgeously illustrated by the celebrated Hugh Thomson, this Macmillan Collector’s Library edition also includes an afterword by author and critic Henry Hitchings.
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