Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen

Originally Published for the Author, 1811
2007 Open Books Electronic Edition
Cover Art "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"
by John William Waterhouse














About the Author: Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire, England. Austen remained with her family all her adult life, never marrying. After the publication of Sense and Sensibility in 1811, her life was brightened by a wide readership, several of her books reached second or third editions in her lifetime.

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
portrays the life and loves of two starkly different sisters: Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Secrets, betrayals and confessions soon complicate the lives of the Dashwoods, whose goal is nothing less than the achievement of perfect happiness.

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